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.

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

drinks.”

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

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

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

have

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

cuddling

of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

has called a

dangling

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

this idea that

called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

it. So I wait. I order shots

and have fun,

Rebel smirks at me.

small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan

to know he

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me

There you are!”

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

around him like

but laugh. “What did

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

beating really fast.”

anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on