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

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

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 about

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

to have

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aren’t 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, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake,

cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a cab

and her legs are dangling

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is

idea that I

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

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, and

smirks at me.

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the guy

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

is talking to some girl, and my

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

are

at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

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

around him like

but laugh. “What did you

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

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

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

is beating really

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, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go,