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.

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

drinks.”

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

hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her

negative energy and jealousy and

to have fun.

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anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t

cuddling

is drunk out of her mind.

and got a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has called a cab

legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t hear

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

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

he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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

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

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

“What did

soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her

speeds up. I’m speechless.

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

is beating

realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on