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, says in a

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and

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,

cuddling with

her mind.

pregnant and got a

has

her legs are dangling

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

seems to have this idea

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

wait. I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks

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

know he has options.”

“Okay, here goes…

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

boiling when he is in the same

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

him. The

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

him like a monkey, she storms away.

but laugh. “What did you do that for,

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to

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

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

beating really fast.”

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