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

drinks.”

by the other woman’s

Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have fun.

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anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan,

not cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter, so

with Nathan. He has called

dangling down from his lap.

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

this idea that I can’t hear

called

perfect for me.

Kelly is 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

have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

get 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

he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

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

forward.

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

mouth.

who are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

girl

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

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

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

as I stare at

is beating

hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or