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.

met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

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

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have fun.

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hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl

not cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She

a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has

dangling down from his lap.

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

idea

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

perfect for me.

gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

wait. I order shots with Rebel

and have fun, and once

smirks at me.

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

know he has

thickly. “Okay,

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

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 and

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

of him.

mouth.

who are you?”

beats me to

There you are!”

the girl stares at us. I’m shocked.

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

“What did you do that for,

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you,

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

makes a smug face as I stare at him.

beating really fast.”

we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face.