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

and then I went here with Mark. He must have been so confused, thinking

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

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

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

energy and jealousy and focus

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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,

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally not pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is cuddling with Nathan.

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

have this idea that I can’t hear her. Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That,

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word for it. So I wait. I order shots with

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

thickly. “Okay, here

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

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

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

who are

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

There you are!”

stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And

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

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

I didn’t expect Jake to do that for me, and he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your heart is beating really fast.”

hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes