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.

I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s

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

and jealousy and focus on

have fun.

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a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with

not cuddling with anyone.

of her mind. She

and got a babysitter, so

Nathan. He has called

legs are dangling down from his lap.

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

to have this idea

her. He called a

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

So I wait. I order shots with

have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even

he has

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

to some girl, and my heart

has this 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 he looks up and tilts his

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

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

around him like a monkey, she

“What did you do that for,

rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

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

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

beating really

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 face.