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.

we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have fun.

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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, Jake, and me—the single girl who feels

not cuddling

of her mind.

a babysitter, so

He has called a cab

dangling down from

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t hear

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

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

and have fun,

smirks at

While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

to know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

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

does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

front of him.

mouth.

are

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

from the ground while the girl

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

can’t help but laugh. “What did you

all soft. “She was rude to you, so

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

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

is beating really fast.”

realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad