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.

met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly

shake away all negative energy and jealousy

to have fun.

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

not cuddling

of her

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

has called a

legs are dangling down from his

the bar. And Kelly? She

have this idea that

ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

wait. I order

fun, and

smirks at me.

she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

know he has

“Okay,

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

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

front of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my

legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

did you do

was rude to you, so I made sure

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

I stare

beating really

brain just 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