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.

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

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she

her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

have fun.

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

not cuddling with

her mind. She is finally

got a

with Nathan. He has called a

her legs are dangling

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

idea

called a

perfect for me.

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

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

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks

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

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

to some girl, and my

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

does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are

but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

my legs around him like a monkey, she

laugh. “What did you do

soft. “She was rude to

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

is beating really

practically hugging. My hands are