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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

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

and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

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

have

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well

cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter, so she

has called a

legs are dangling

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

to have this idea that I can’t

called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake

I wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s

to know he has options.”

“Okay, here goes…

corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s

this presence 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

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

who are you?”

beats me to

There you are!”

hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl

legs around him like a monkey,

did

all soft. “She was rude to you,

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

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

is beating really

I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s