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.

with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order

drinks.”

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

at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or something?

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have fun.

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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,

cuddling

her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has called

her legs are dangling

for Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

to have this idea

He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds

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 tilts his head,

unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

are

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And

him like a monkey, she storms

laugh. “What did you do that for, you

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

a smug face as I stare at

is beating really fast.”

embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes