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 rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order some

drinks.”

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

her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes

I shake away all negative energy and

have

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bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan,

cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She

got a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from his

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t

ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t

So I wait. I order shots

fun, and

Rebel smirks at

plans, and

know he has

“Okay,

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. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I

this 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

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

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

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey,

but laugh. “What did

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

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

is beating really fast.”

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