The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

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

“I don’t date nice guys, and then I went here with Mark. He must have

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

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

her mind. She is finally not pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is cuddling with Nathan. He has called

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking

busy ignoring her. He called a

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word for it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

Jake is alone, Rebel

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the guy needs to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster.

is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

are you?”

Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

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

laugh. “What did you do

“She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

Jake to do that for me, and he makes a smug face as I stare at him.

don’t say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s