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.

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

drinks.”

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

looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me.

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy

to have fun.

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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

not cuddling with

her

got a babysitter, so she is

has

legs are dangling down from

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

fun, and

smirks

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the

to know he has

“Okay, here

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

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

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

forward.

of him.

mouth.

are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m

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

but laugh. “What did you do that for,

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to

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

makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating really

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