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.

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before

me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

energy and

to have fun.

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

cuddling with

of her mind. She is finally

a

with Nathan. He has called a

legs are dangling down from

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

this idea that I can’t hear

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

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

I order

and have fun, and once

Rebel smirks

plans, and

he has

thickly. “Okay,

bar and set the course 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! Even though it’s

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

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

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

can’t help but laugh. “What did

soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her

I’m speechless.

stare at

is beating

say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s 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 don’t know what