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.

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

drinks.”

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

at her-I don’t know why Kelly

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

have fun.

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hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s

not cuddling with

out of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so she is

has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from his

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

have this idea that

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

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

I

fun,

smirks at

she pushes the 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

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

Rebel 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 do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though

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

unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

are

Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked.

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

but laugh. “What did you do that

was rude to you, so I

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

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

is beating

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.