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

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

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

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

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

She is finally not pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is cuddling with Nathan.

by the bar. And Kelly?

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

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

have fun, and once Jake is alone, Rebel

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 not wrong-the guy needs to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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

has 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 he looks up and tilts his head, smiling, I almost

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

are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my

but laugh. “What did

leans in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I

expect Jake to do that for me, and he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

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