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.

never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude,

and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or

I shake away all negative energy and

have

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

not cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She

a babysitter,

has called a cab

are dangling down

And Kelly? She

seems to have this idea that I can’t

her. He called a

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

I wait. I order shots with

and have fun,

smirks at

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

he

“Okay,

set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s

now. 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 up and tilts his head,

this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are

beats me to

There you are!”

it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl

my legs around him like

“What did you do that

was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating

hands are on Jake’s broad

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