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.

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

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

shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or something?

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

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at the hotel 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

cuddling with anyone.

her

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has

legs are dangling down from

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

this idea

called a cab

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with

fun, and

Rebel smirks at

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can

same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m

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

but laugh. “What did you do that

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

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

beating really

don’t say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t