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 a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

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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

cuddling with anyone.

of her mind.

got a babysitter, so she is

has called a

are dangling down

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

to have this idea

He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I

I wait. I

and have fun, and once

smirks at

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

know he has

thickly. “Okay, here

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

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

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

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at

legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

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

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating really

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