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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy

have

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice,

not cuddling

of her

got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a

are dangling down from his lap.

Kelly? She is

seems to have this idea that

ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

and have fun, and

Rebel smirks

him,” she pushes 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 feel. It’s not wrong-the guy

he

thickly. “Okay, here

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

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

him. The

mouth.

who are you?”

me to it

There you are!”

from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

him like

did you

all soft. “She was rude to

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin.

beating really fast.”

that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,

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