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.

we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy

drinks.”

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

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

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have

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hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly,

not cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind.

pregnant and got a

has called a

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

have this idea that

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

perfect for me.

Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

wait. I order

and have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

to know he has

“Okay, here

bar. Jake is talking to

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

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

of him. The girl

mouth.

who are

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

him like a monkey,

“What did you do that for, you

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

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

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

is beating really

are on Jake’s