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.

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

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude,

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

and

have fun.

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hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice,

not cuddling with

out of her mind. She is

and got a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from his

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

idea that

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will

wait. I order shots

and have fun, and

smirks at me.

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s

know he has options.”

“Okay, here

bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my

same room or paying me attention. I’m

this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us.

my legs around him like a monkey,

did you do

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you,

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

he makes a smug face as I stare at him.

is beating really

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,