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 order some

drinks.”

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

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have fun.

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a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel,

cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind.

a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

this idea

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

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots with Rebel and

have fun, and

smirks at me.

her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the guy

to know he

thickly. “Okay,

Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once

him like a monkey, she

laugh. “What did

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

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

smug face as I stare at

is beating really

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