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.

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

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

shrug at her-I don’t know why

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

to have fun.

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

cuddling with

of her

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

have this idea that I can’t hear

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order

and have fun, and

smirks at me.

my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes,

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me

There you are!”

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 on Jake’s

around him like a

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

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

speechless. I didn’t expect

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

beating

hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face.