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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude,

at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or something?

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have

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

cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has

legs are dangling

by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and

have this idea that I

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

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

to know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay,

course 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, I can! Even though it’s scary…

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are

her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

the girl stares at us.

him

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

beating really

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