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.

on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

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

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

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

to have

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aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the

cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her

got a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called

legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

to have this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake

it. So I wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks at me.

get 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

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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 can! Even

boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

who are you?”

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl

wrap my legs around him like a

help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

all soft. “She was rude to

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

smug face as I stare

is beating

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