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.

so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s

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

away all negative energy and jealousy and

to have

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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,

cuddling with

drunk out of her

and got a babysitter, so she is

has called a cab

are dangling down from his lap.

the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

to have this idea that

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

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take

wait. I order

and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at

of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster.

presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his

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

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like

did

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

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

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

is beating really fast.”

anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s