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.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

all negative energy and

have fun.

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anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well

cuddling

her mind.

pregnant and got a babysitter, so

has

her legs are dangling down from

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t hear

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

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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…

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

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

me

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that

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

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

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

beating really fast.”

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes