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.

finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude,

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

negative energy and jealousy and

to have

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hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and

cuddling

out of her mind. She

and got a babysitter, so

with Nathan. He has called a

legs are dangling

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is

idea that

currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots

and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks

plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you

to know he has

thickly. “Okay, here

set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some

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

does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked.

legs around him like a monkey, she

but laugh. “What did

soft. “She was rude to you, so

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

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

is beating

now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his