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 tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have

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

cuddling

her mind. She

and got a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called a

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

idea that

her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I

I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan

know he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

Logan and Rebel by the 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?

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey, she storms

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

“She was rude to you,

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

and he makes a smug face as I stare at him.

beating really

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