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 a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

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

shake away all negative energy and

have

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a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us.

cuddling

her mind.

and got a babysitter, so she is

He has

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

to have this idea that

called

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots

have fun,

Rebel smirks

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

“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

feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The

wrap my legs around him

help but laugh. “What did

rude to you, so I

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

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

beating really fast.”

just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on