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.

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me.

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

to have

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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

not cuddling with

her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

has

dangling down

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

idea

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun,

Rebel smirks

back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and

he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

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

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

who are

but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I

him like

can’t help but laugh. “What did you

to you, so I made sure to put her in

I’m speechless. I didn’t

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

is beating really fast.”

don’t say 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,