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.

with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order some

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have fun.

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but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake,

not cuddling

her mind.

got a

He has

and her legs are dangling down from his

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t

busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with

fun, and once

Rebel smirks at

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I

is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us.

him like a

help but laugh. “What did you do

leans in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

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

is beating really

are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go, and