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.

so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have fun.

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bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake,

not cuddling

drunk out of her mind.

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a

her legs are dangling down from his

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

seems to have this idea that I

called

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or

I

have fun, and once Jake is

smirks

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s

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

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

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

mouth.

who are

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m

and wrap my legs around him

but laugh. “What did you do

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

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating really fast.”

that we are practically hugging. My hands are