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.

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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me.

away all negative energy and

to have

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the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I

cuddling

out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter,

has called

her legs are dangling down

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

have this idea that

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

perfect for me.

soon as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks

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

to know he has

“Okay, here

to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster.

is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his head,

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me to it by saying,

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 shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place

and wrap my legs around him like a

but laugh. “What did you do that

soft. “She was rude to you, so I made

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

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

is beating really

practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked