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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone.

drinks.”

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

shrug at her-I don’t

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

to have

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at 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

cuddling with

her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter, so she is

has called a

are dangling down from his lap.

Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and

idea that I can’t hear

ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks

my plans, and now even Logan is

he has

“Okay, here

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

my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are

at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

know 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. And

him like a monkey, she storms away.

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

rude to

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

smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

is beating really

anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes