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

drinks.”

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

shrug at her-I don’t

energy and jealousy and focus on my

have fun.

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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, and me—the single girl who feels

cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind. She

and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called

and her legs are dangling down from

by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

to have this idea that I can’t hear

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

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

I wait. I order

and have fun, and once

smirks

him,” she 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

he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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.

It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same

does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

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 shocked. The girl is shocked. And

around him like a monkey,

but laugh. “What did you

was rude to you, so I made sure to put her

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating really fast.”

brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on