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.

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

drinks.”

woman’s

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have fun.

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at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t

cuddling

her

and got a babysitter, so she

has called a cab

legs are dangling down from his

the bar. And Kelly? She

to have this idea that I can’t

called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

have fun,

Rebel smirks at

her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel.

he has

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are you?”

but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands

legs around him

can’t help but laugh. “What did

soft. “She was rude to you,

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

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

is beating really fast.”

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