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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

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

shake away all negative energy and

to have

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

not cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She

and got a

He has called

legs are dangling

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

have this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

So I wait. I order shots with

have fun, and once Jake

smirks at

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

to know he

“Okay,

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

is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and

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

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

all soft. “She was rude to

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

makes a smug face as I stare at

beating really fast.”

practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,