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 like for us to order some

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have fun.

***

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

cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

has called a

dangling

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots

have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at me.

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

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I

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

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

are

beats me to it by

There you are!”

from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on

and wrap my legs around him like

did you do that for, you dork?!”

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

smug face as I stare

is beating

that we are practically hugging. My hands are on