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.

here, 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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude,

Kelly claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or

away all negative energy and

to have

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

not cuddling

is drunk out of her

got a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

idea that I can’t hear

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

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks

While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how

know he has

“Okay,

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

presence now. 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

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

forward.

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

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

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

around him like a monkey, she storms

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that

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

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

as I stare

beating really fast.”

we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,