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.

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

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

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

cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

a babysitter, so she is

has called a

legs are dangling down

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is

idea

her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

have fun,

Rebel smirks at

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

know he has

“Okay,

bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes,

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 looks up and

this unwelcome

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a

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

to you, so I made sure to

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

smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really fast.”

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