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.

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

drinks.”

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

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have

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at 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 with anyone.

out of her

a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a

are dangling

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

to have this idea that I can’t

ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

I wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks at me.

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

to know he

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and

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

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

forward.

of him. The

mouth.

who are

her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

I know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And

him like a monkey, she storms away.

did you do that for, you dork?!”

to you, so I made

I’m speechless. I didn’t

as I stare at him. Eyebrows

beating really

hands are on