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 a

drinks.”

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

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

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at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan,

not cuddling

out of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so she

He has called a cab

dangling down from

for Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

to have this idea that

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and once

smirks at me.

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

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

leave Logan and 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 it’s scary…

is boiling when he is in the same room or paying

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

standing in front of him.

mouth.

are

but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

the girl stares at us. I’m shocked.

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

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

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

beating really

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