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.

I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude,

I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless

away all negative energy and jealousy

have

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She

a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called

dangling

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm

to have this idea

He called a cab for

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will

wait. I order

have fun, and once

smirks

back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at

my legs around him like a monkey, she

did you do that for, you

was rude to you, so I made sure to

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

is beating

anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,

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