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.

you’re finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me

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

have fun.

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

not cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has

her legs are dangling down from his

by the bar. And Kelly? She is

have this idea that I can’t

is currently busy ignoring her. 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 Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take

it. So I wait. I order

fun, and

Rebel smirks at

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

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even

It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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

legs around him like

help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

voice all soft. “She was rude to

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating

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