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.

you’re finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone.

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

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

away all negative energy and jealousy

to have

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but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with

not cuddling with

of her

got a babysitter,

He has

dangling down from his

Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

idea that

ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

I

and have fun,

Rebel smirks

her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

to know he has options.”

“Okay, here

to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even

this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks

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

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

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

him like

laugh. “What did

rude to you, so I made sure to put her

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

stare at him.

is 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 Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face.