The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 2

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.

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

drinks.”

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

her-I don’t know

all negative energy and jealousy and

have fun.

***

at 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,

cuddling

out of her mind. She is

and got a

Nathan. He has called a cab

are dangling down

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about me.

seems to have this idea

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

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

to know he has options.”

“Okay, here

Jake is talking to some girl,

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

front of him. The girl

mouth.

are

her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

girl

wrap my legs around him

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

“She was rude to

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

and he makes a smug face as I stare at him.

beating

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 to

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