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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

the other woman’s

Kelly claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

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hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel,

not cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She

a babysitter, so

has

dangling down from his lap.

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t hear

her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel.

to know he

thickly. “Okay,

Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes.

presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or

My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

who are

her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

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 place my hands

legs around him like a monkey, she

“What did you do that for, you dork?!”

rude to you, so I made

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

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

beating really fast.”

are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to