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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

Kelly claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or

and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have fun.

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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 us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl who feels

cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has

legs are dangling down from his

And Kelly? She

have this idea that

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

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take

it. So I wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks at me.

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

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and

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

unwelcome flip,

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked.

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

laugh. “What did you do that for, you

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

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

beating really fast.”

now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad