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.

you’re finally 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

drinks.”

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

claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or something?

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

have fun.

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

not cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her

pregnant and got a babysitter, so

Nathan. He has called

dangling down from

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

idea that I

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

fun, and once Jake is

smirks

my plans, and now even Logan is

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and

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

does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us.

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

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

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

as I stare

is beating really

now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know