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.

finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds

her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have fun.

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anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice,

not cuddling

of her

got a

He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit

to have this idea that

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots with Rebel

have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks

him,” she pushes the small of 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

he

“Okay, here goes…

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some

has this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

did you do that for, you dork?!”

soft. “She was rude to

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

beating

It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where