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.

we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

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

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

have

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bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl

not cuddling

of her mind. She is finally

a

has called

dangling down

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about me.

have this idea that I can’t

is currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

have fun, and

smirks at me.

plans, and now even Logan is cheering

know he has options.”

“Okay,

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!

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

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

are

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

There you are!”

know it, I’m 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 I

him like a monkey, she storms

but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

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

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

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

beating really

embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go, and