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.

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

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before

shrug at her-I

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

to have fun.

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know

not cuddling

out of her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a cab

legs are dangling down

Kelly? She

seems to have this idea that I

ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

I order shots with Rebel

and have fun, and

smirks at me.

of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the

he

“Okay,

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

is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

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

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at

him like a monkey, she

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for,

was rude to

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

a smug face as I stare at him.

beating really

hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where