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

drinks.”

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

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have

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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

cuddling with

out of her mind.

and got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from

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

idea that I can’t hear

called a cab

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with Rebel

have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans,

he has options.”

“Okay,

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

he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his

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

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

“What did

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

I’m speechless. I didn’t

face as I stare at him.

is beating really fast.”

now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s