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 in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

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

claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly

negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to 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,

cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so

with Nathan. He has called a cab

and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

this idea that I can’t hear

called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

to know he

“Okay, here goes…

and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl,

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The

around him like a monkey, she

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

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

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

makes a smug face as I stare at

beating really fast.”

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