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.

met before, says in a rather bitchy

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me.

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have fun.

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getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t

not cuddling

is drunk out of her

and got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a

are dangling down from his lap.

by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit

idea that I can’t

her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

So I wait. I order shots

have fun, and once

Rebel smirks

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans,

know he

thickly. “Okay, here

and Rebel by 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.

has this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his head,

unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

of him.

mouth.

who are you?”

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once

him like a monkey, she storms

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for,

was rude to you, so I made sure to

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

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

beating really

now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad