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.

with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

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

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

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hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s

cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She

got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from his

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

idea that

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with

fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

to know he

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I

presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room

does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place

around him like a monkey, she

did you do that

to you,

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

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

beating really fast.”

are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know