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.

you’re finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she

Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

have fun.

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at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know

not cuddling with

drunk out of her mind.

and got a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called

legs are dangling down from his

by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

idea that

He called

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I

fun, and

Rebel smirks at

get him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying

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

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

who 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. The girl is shocked. And

legs around him like a monkey, she storms

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

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

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

a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

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, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know