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.

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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude,

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

have

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bar. The hockey guys I

not cuddling

her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter, so

He has called a cab

are dangling down from his

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

to have this idea

He called a cab

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks

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

know he has

“Okay,

Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to

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

this unwelcome flip,

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

who are you?”

her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl

him like a monkey,

laugh. “What did you do that for, you

rude to you,

I’m speechless. I didn’t

stare at

is beating

if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked

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