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.

never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would

drinks.”

the other woman’s

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have

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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,

cuddling

her mind. She

a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called a

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

seems to have this idea

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

of my plans,

to know he has

“Okay,

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

It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

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

forward.

front of him. The

mouth.

who are

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 shocked. And once I place

wrap my legs around him like

help but laugh. “What did you

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

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating

now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his