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.

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

drinks.”

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

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

all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have

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

not cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter, so

He has called a cab

dangling down

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

this idea that

called a cab for

perfect for me.

confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks

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

know he

“Okay,

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

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

unwelcome flip,

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

and lifted up from the ground while the girl

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

laugh. “What did you do that for, you

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I

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

a smug face as I stare

beating really

we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad