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.

never met

drinks.”

the other woman’s

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

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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,

He has called a

her legs are dangling down from his

bar. And Kelly? She is

to have this idea that

her. 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 will take his word

I wait. I order shots

fun, and once

Rebel smirks

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

know he

thickly. “Okay,

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

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

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

forward.

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

mouth.

who are you?”

beats me to

There you are!”

lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once

legs around him

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

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

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

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

is beating really

are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go, and