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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

at her-I don’t

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have

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The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us.

not cuddling

of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called

dangling down from his lap.

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t

called

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and once

smirks at

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

he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

leave Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl,

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he

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

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

are

me to it by

There you are!”

lifted up from the ground while the girl

and wrap my legs around him like a

“What did you do that

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

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

makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

beating really fast.”

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