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

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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before

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

all negative energy and

to have fun.

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well

not cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind.

and got a babysitter,

has called a cab

and her legs are dangling

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

this idea that I can’t hear

ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

So I wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks at me.

plans, and now

to know he has

“Okay, here

bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s scary…

same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his head,

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

in front of him. The

mouth.

are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

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

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

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

beating really fast.”

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