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 for us to order

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she

hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t

all negative energy and

have

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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, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl

cuddling with anyone.

of her

got a

He has called

dangling down from

for Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking

have this idea that I

ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

said Jake and

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

smirks

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

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this?

It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

from the ground while the girl stares at

him like a monkey, she storms away.

laugh. “What did you do that for, you

soft. “She was rude to

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

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

beating

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