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

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s

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

energy and jealousy and focus

have fun.

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the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice,

cuddling

of her

a

Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm

to have this idea

currently busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun,

Rebel smirks at me.

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

to know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

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

mouth.

who are

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

ground while the girl

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

laugh. “What did

voice all soft. “She was rude to

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

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

is beating really

I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are