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 tone. “I would like for us to order some

drinks.”

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

claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

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a bar. The hockey guys I don’t

cuddling

of her mind. She is

got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called

are dangling

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

seems to have this idea that I can’t hear

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

perfect for me.

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

I order shots

have fun,

Rebel smirks at me.

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

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can 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 tilts his

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I

my legs around him

did you

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

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

face as I stare at

beating really

hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t