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.

we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

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

shrug at her-I don’t

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have

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

cuddling with anyone.

of her

got a babysitter, so she is

He has

are dangling

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

seems to have this idea that

ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

I order shots with

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

smirks at

my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

know he

“Okay,

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

has 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 up and tilts

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

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are

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

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.

my legs around him like a monkey, she

“What did you do that for, you dork?!”

was rude to you, so I

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

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

beating

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