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.

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

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

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

energy and jealousy and focus on

have

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bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well

cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She

a

Nathan. He has called

and her legs are dangling down from

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

have this idea that I can’t

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks at

plans, and now even Logan

know he has

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.

same room or paying

does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are

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

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

but laugh. “What did you

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

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

smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin.

beating

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