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.

met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

drinks.”

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

her-I don’t know why Kelly

away all negative energy and

to have fun.

***

I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s

not cuddling

out of her mind. She

a

with Nathan. He has called a cab

legs are dangling down from his

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

seems to have this idea that

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

I order shots

fun,

smirks at

While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

he

“Okay, here goes…

to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I

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

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

around him like a monkey, she storms

“What did you do that for,

leans in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you,

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

I stare at him.

beating really

practically hugging. My hands are on

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