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.

so 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 to order

drinks.”

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

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have

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anymore, but getting drunk 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

cuddling with

out of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a

has called a

legs are dangling down from his

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

seems to have this idea

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

soon as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

So I wait. I order shots with

and have fun,

Rebel smirks at me.

plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay,

to

same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and

stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

know it, 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 on Jake’s

my legs around him like a

but laugh. “What did

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

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

face as I stare

beating really

if my brain 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