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.

can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have fun.

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at the 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

cuddling with anyone.

of her

got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a cab

dangling down from his

by the bar. And Kelly?

idea

is currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will

I wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at

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

to know he has options.”

“Okay,

by the 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.

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

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl

around him

“What did you do that for,

to you, so I made sure to

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

and he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin.

beating really

anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to