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 like

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

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

energy and

to have fun.

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

not cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has

are dangling down from his lap.

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

to have this idea that

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

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

have fun,

smirks at

told her of my plans, and now even Logan

know he

“Okay,

is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though

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

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

him. The

mouth.

who are

but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

“What did you do that for, you

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

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

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

beating really

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