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.

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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude,

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have

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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. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly,

cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

a babysitter, so she

has called

are dangling down from

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

this idea that I can’t hear

called a

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel.

to know he

“Okay, here

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 can! Even though it’s

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

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

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

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey, she

but laugh. “What did you do

soft. “She was rude to

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

beating really

if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,