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.

you’re finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

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

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have

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hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I

not cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her

and got a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has called

are dangling down

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

to have this idea that

ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and once

smirks at

small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the guy

to know he has options.”

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 can!

the same room or paying me

unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my

legs around him

“What did you

was rude to you, so I made sure

speechless. I didn’t

I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really fast.”

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