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.

you’re finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

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

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have fun.

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hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice,

cuddling

out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has called

dangling down from his

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and

idea that I can’t

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots

and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks

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 you feel. It’s

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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

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

this unwelcome

forward.

of him. The

mouth.

who are

her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

the girl stares at us. I’m shocked.

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

laugh. “What did

“She was rude to you, so I made

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating really fast.”

say anything. 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, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or