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.

who I’ve never met before, says

drinks.”

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

her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her

away all negative energy and jealousy

to have fun.

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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 who

not cuddling with

of her mind. She

got a babysitter,

has called a

dangling down from his

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

have this idea that I

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun,

smirks at me.

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

he has

thickly. “Okay, here

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

he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are

at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

help but laugh. “What did you

voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

is beating really

say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are