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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy

to have

***

but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t

cuddling

out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a

He has called

and her legs are dangling

for Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

seems to have this idea that I can’t

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will

I

laugh, and have fun,

smirks at me.

of my plans, and

know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and

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

unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are

at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl

him like

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure

up. I’m speechless.

as I stare

beating

are on Jake’s

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