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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

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

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have

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

cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind.

and got a babysitter, so

He has called

dangling down

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

have this idea

ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks at

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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

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

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

“What did

“She was rude to

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

makes a smug face as I stare at him.

is beating really fast.”

are on Jake’s broad