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, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would

drinks.”

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

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have fun.

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

not cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has called a

her legs are dangling down

Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

seems to have this idea

called

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

I wait. I order shots with Rebel

have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at me.

my plans,

to know he has

“Okay, here goes…

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

my blood is boiling when he is in the same

this unwelcome

forward.

front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are

beats me to it

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey,

“What did you do that for,

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to

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

a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

is beating

It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where

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