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.

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

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

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

energy and jealousy

to have fun.

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single

cuddling with

out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has

dangling down from his lap.

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

to have this idea that I can’t hear

currently busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

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

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

and have fun,

Rebel smirks at

him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

know he has options.”

“Okay, here goes…

the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can

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

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

are

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

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place

around him like a monkey,

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

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

chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

a smug face as I stare at him.

beating really

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