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.

here, 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

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she

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

and jealousy and focus on

have

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anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know

cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She

and got a babysitter, so

Nathan. He has called

and her legs are dangling down from his

for Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

have this idea that I can’t hear

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and once

smirks at

back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan

know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

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

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

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl

and wrap my legs around him like a

“What did you do

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her

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

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

is beating really

I’m 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