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.”

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

I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have fun.

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

cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She is

and got a babysitter, so she

has called a

and her legs are dangling down from

by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

seems to have this idea

is currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots with

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks at

small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans,

know he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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

the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

him.

mouth.

are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

laugh. “What did you do that for,

to you, so I made sure to put her

speechless. I didn’t

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

beating really

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 say or where