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.

I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

I shrug at her-I

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have fun.

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at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t

not cuddling

her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

to have this idea that I can’t

busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his

I order shots with Rebel and

have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks

plans, and now even Logan is

know he has options.”

“Okay,

to some

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

are you?”

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

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

legs around him like

but laugh. “What did you do that

rude to you, so I made sure to

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

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

is beating really fast.”

as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s