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.

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

drinks.”

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

Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about

negative energy and jealousy and focus

have fun.

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

not cuddling with

drunk out of her

got a babysitter, so she is

has called a cab

dangling

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and

idea that I can’t

called a

perfect for me.

soon as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

So I wait. I

fun,

smirks

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

he

“Okay, here goes…

leave Logan and Rebel 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. Yes, I can! Even though it’s

he is in the same room

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

in front of him.

mouth.

are you?”

her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I

around him like a monkey, she storms

laugh. “What did you do that

“She was rude to you, so I made sure to

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really

say 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