The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 3

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,

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s

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?

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

have fun.

***

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

not cuddling with

her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter,

has called

are dangling down from his

Kelly? She

have this idea that I

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and

wait. I order shots with Rebel

fun, and once

smirks at me.

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to

in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

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

forward.

front of him. The

mouth.

are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at

around him like a

“What did you

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to

I’m speechless. I

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating really fast.”

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

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