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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake

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

to have

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the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know

cuddling

of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter,

He has called

her legs are dangling down from his

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

have this idea that I

her. He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks at me.

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

in front of him. The

mouth.

who are

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

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

my legs around him like a monkey,

“What did you do that for,

“She was rude to you, so I made sure

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

he makes a smug face as I stare at him.

beating really

embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know