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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

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

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

all negative energy and

to have

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bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice,

cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind. She

got a babysitter, so she is

has

are dangling down from

bar. And Kelly? She

have this idea that I can’t hear

He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

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

he has

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

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

unwelcome flip, and

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are

her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a

but laugh. “What did

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

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

beating really fast.”

don’t say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on