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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

at her-I don’t know why

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

have

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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 single girl

not cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is

and got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from

by the bar. And Kelly? She is

this idea that

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

I

and have fun, and once Jake

smirks

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

to know he

thickly. “Okay,

the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this?

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

“What did you do that

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you,

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

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

is beating really fast.”

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. I don’t know what to say or where to