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.

who I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s

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

energy and jealousy and focus

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,

not cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

a babysitter, so she is

He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from

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

this idea that I can’t

He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order

have fun, and

smirks at me.

him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even

to know he has

thickly. “Okay,

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

this presence now. It feels 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

unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked.

legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

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

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

and he makes a smug face as I stare at him.

beating really fast.”

practically hugging. My hands are on