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

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

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

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

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

not cuddling with

of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter,

He has

her legs are dangling down from his

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

this idea

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with

fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

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

unwelcome

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

help but laugh. “What did you do

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

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

is beating really

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 to