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.

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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude,

me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have fun.

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

cuddling

her mind. She is finally

got a

has called

legs are dangling down from his

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

have this idea that I

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

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

to know he has options.”

“Okay, here goes…

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

is boiling when he is in the same room

does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

who are

her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey,

but laugh. “What did

was rude to you, so I made sure

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

as I stare

beating really fast.”

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