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

drinks.”

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

at her-I

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

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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

cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She is

and got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a cab

legs are dangling

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

idea

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

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly

wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

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 wrong-the guy

know he has

thickly. “Okay,

to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and

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

does this unwelcome

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

lifted up from the ground while the girl

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for,

soft. “She was rude to you, so I made

speechless.

I stare

beating really

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