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. “I would like for us to order

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s

at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

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bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well

not cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so

Nathan. He has

legs are dangling down

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking

have this idea

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I

have fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

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 options.”

“Okay, here

for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl,

blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

laugh. “What did you do that for,

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

I’m speechless. I didn’t

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

beating

don’t say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his