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

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s

hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t

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

to have

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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, Jake, and me—the single girl who

not cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter, so she is

has

are dangling down from his

Kelly? She is drunk,

seems to have this idea that

her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

I

and have fun, and once

smirks at

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

know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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

like 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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

who are you?”

me to it

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a

laugh. “What did you do that

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

beating really

just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on