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.

can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and

to have

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

cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called a cab

and her legs are dangling down from

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

have this idea that I can’t

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly

I order shots with

and have fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how

he

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

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

forward.

front of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

Jake beats me to it by saying,

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

legs around him like a monkey,

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

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

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

and he makes a smug face as I stare

beating really

we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,