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

drinks.”

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

her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me.

and jealousy and focus on

to have fun.

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bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well

cuddling

of her mind.

and got a babysitter, so

He has called a cab

are dangling down

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

this idea

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

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and once

smirks at

back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

to know he has

thickly. “Okay,

talking to some girl,

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

this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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

him like a monkey, she storms away.

did you do that for, you dork?!”

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

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

makes a smug face as I stare at

is beating

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