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

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude,

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

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

cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called

her legs are dangling down from his

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

have this idea that I can’t hear

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun,

smirks

small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

to know he has

“Okay,

Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart

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

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

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

are

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

girl stares at

my legs around him

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

rude to you, so

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

is beating

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 or