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

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

negative energy and jealousy

to have fun.

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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 single girl who feels

not cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind.

got a

has called a cab

are dangling down

the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

to have this idea

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun,

Rebel smirks at me.

she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

know he

thickly. “Okay,

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

is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

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 I place my hands

around him like a monkey,

“What did you do that for,

to you, so I made sure to

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

makes a smug face as I stare at him.

beating really fast.”

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