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.

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

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about

way, I shake away all negative energy and

to have fun.

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at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us.

cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind.

and got a babysitter, so she

He has called

her legs are dangling

are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

idea

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

I order shots with

have fun, and once Jake

smirks

told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

know he

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I

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

this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

wrap my legs around him like a

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

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

I’m speechless.

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

is beating really

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