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.

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my

to have fun.

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

cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She is

a babysitter, so

He has called

dangling

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

to have this idea that I can’t hear

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots with

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell

know he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds

the same room or paying me attention. I’m already

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

around him like a monkey, she

did you do that for, you

“She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

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