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.

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

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she

me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

to have

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a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with

cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has

her legs are dangling down

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

this idea that I can’t hear

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

perfect for me.

Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

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. It’s not wrong-the

he

thickly. “Okay, here

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. Yes, I can! Even

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are you?”

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

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

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

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

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

is beating

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