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. “I would like

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

to have fun.

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the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the

cuddling with

of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter,

He has called

dangling down

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

have this idea

her. He called a

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks at

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

know he

“Okay, here

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

same room or

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

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

laugh. “What did

was rude to you, so I made sure to put

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

beating really

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