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.

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

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

I shrug at her-I don’t know

all negative energy and jealousy and focus

have fun.

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hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t

cuddling

out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has called

her legs are dangling down from his

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about me.

this idea that I

called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots

fun, and once

smirks at

my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel.

know he

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

to some

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,

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

who are

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place

legs around him like a monkey, she

did you do that

rude to you, so I made sure

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin.

beating really

hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know

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