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.

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

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s

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

negative energy and jealousy and

have fun.

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

not cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter,

He has

are dangling down from his

for Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

have this idea that I

ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

to know he

swallow 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, I can! Even though

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 he

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

forward.

of him.

mouth.

are

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

him like a monkey, she

did you do that for, you dork?!”

was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating really fast.”

my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on