Chapter 54

Winnie

“Hello, Winnie! Nice to see you!” Rebel

holds up her glass for me with a big cheer. She has switched places with Logan to sit on my left side when I walk up to the table.

Alice, however, isn’t sitting down. She

stands up from her seat and gets this

sparkly look on her face before coming to hug me. “Winnie!”

“Hi!” I hug her back. “How are you?”

“I’m good. How are you?”

Before I can answer, Nathan speaks. “Here she comes, my biggest rival in love: Winnie. I swear there is a romance going on here…” he sighs but hides a smile.

“Happy to see you too, big guy,” I tell him and pat his shoulder. “Have you gotten

thinner?”

He snorts. “Shut up! I’m working out harder than ever!”

I grin. “It shows—I’m just teasing!”

People around the table snicker, including Logan. I feel welcomed sitting by the large

table the Plaza Hotel has assembled for us.

“Oh, and since you wondered, I’m feeling pretty okay,” I inform Alice and beam at her. “Mark won’t be joining us, though. He needed to take care of something urgent.”

“We saw,” Alice sits down beside me, grimacing. “But you’re fine, right? We kind of assumed it was a friendly date anyway.”

“Oh, it was,” my eyes flicker to Jake, whose cold expression turns less icy after hearing

me confirm I’m not into Mark.

Interesting…

“I

It hits me then that Jake was probably mad because I told him, “I don’t date nice guys, and then I went here with Mark. He must

have been so confused, thinking I was a

hypocrite.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly

negative energy and

to have

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I don’t know well aren’t with us.

not cuddling with

out of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter,

He has called a cab

legs are dangling down

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

have this idea that

called a cab for

perfect for me.

Jake and

wait. I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

smirks

plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

to know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

bar. Jake is talking to some

feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy,

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

front of him.

mouth.

who are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl

around him like a monkey, she

“What did

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

face as I stare

beating

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face.

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