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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s

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

all negative energy and jealousy

to have

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

not cuddling

out of her mind.

got a babysitter, so

has called a

and her legs are dangling

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm

this idea that I

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I

and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks

plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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

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

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are you?”

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

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

“She was rude to you, so I

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

is beating

that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where