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 rather

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude,

her-I

all negative energy and jealousy

have

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the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with

not cuddling with

of her mind. She

got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a cab

her legs are dangling

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

idea that

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

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

him,” she pushes the 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

he has

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster.

has this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his head,

does this unwelcome

forward.

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

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a

did you do that for,

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

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

is beating really

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 to go,