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.

never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone.

drinks.”

the other woman’s

I shrug at her-I don’t

negative energy and jealousy

have

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t

not cuddling

out of her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called a cab

dangling down from his lap.

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

this idea

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

have fun, and

Rebel smirks

plans, and

know he has

“Okay,

for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes,

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

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

forward.

of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are

eyebrow 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

legs around him like a

did you do that for, you dork?!”

“She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

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

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

beating really fast.”

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