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 rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

to have fun.

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know

not cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind. She is

a

with Nathan. He has called a

are dangling down from

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

seems to have this idea that I

called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

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

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are you?”

but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey,

did you

“She was rude to

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

makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin.

beating really

hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked