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

that Jake was probably mad because I told him, “I don’t date nice guys, and then I went here with Mark. He

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

the other woman’s attitude,

and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or something?

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

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

drunk out of her mind. She is finally not pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is cuddling with Nathan. He has called a cab already, and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

by the bar. And Kelly? She is

hear her. Jake is currently busy ignoring her.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word for it. So I wait. I order

and once Jake

her of my plans, and now even Logan is

“Okay, here

by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds

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 bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

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

are

at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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 hands on Jake’s shoulders and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

“What did you do that for,

to you, so I made sure to put her in

he makes a smug face as I stare

are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go, and