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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

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,

cuddling with

drunk out of her mind.

got a babysitter, so

has called

her legs are dangling down from his

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

have this idea that I can’t hear

called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or

I wait. I order shots

have fun, and once Jake

smirks

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans,

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I

this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

help but laugh. “What did you

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

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

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

is beating really

don’t say 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 locked onto his face. I don’t know what