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.”

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

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

negative energy and jealousy

have fun.

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

cuddling with anyone.

of her mind. She

a babysitter, so she

He has called a

dangling down from

by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and

seems to have this idea that

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun,

smirks at me.

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel.

to know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to

is boiling when he is in the same

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

forward.

in front of him. The

mouth.

who are

me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

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

around him like a monkey, she

did you do that for,

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

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

stare at him.

is beating really fast.”

are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked