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.

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

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.

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us.

cuddling with

drunk out of her

got a

He has called

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm

to have this idea that I can’t

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots

have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at

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 him how

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are

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

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

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

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

is beating really

I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,