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.

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude,

me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

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,

not cuddling with anyone.

her

pregnant and got a

Nathan. He has called

her legs are dangling down from

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking

have this idea

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly

it. So I wait. I

and have fun,

smirks

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel.

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

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

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

this unwelcome flip,

forward.

him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m

and wrap my legs around him

did you do that for, you dork?!”

leans in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put

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

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

beating

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, and