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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I

drinks.”

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

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy

have fun.

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

not cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She is

and got a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has

and her legs are dangling down from his

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t

ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I

have fun,

Rebel smirks

him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

know he

thickly. “Okay,

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

he is in the same room or paying

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

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

are

but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like

laugh. “What did

“She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating

realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know