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.

I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order some

drinks.”

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

looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

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

cuddling with anyone.

of her mind. She

got a babysitter, so she is

has called a cab

and her legs are dangling down from

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

this idea that I

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

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

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

to know he

thickly. “Okay,

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some

same room or paying me attention. I’m already

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are

but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

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

did you do that for, you

“She was rude to you, so I made

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

is beating really

hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto