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

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have

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hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly,

cuddling

drunk out of her

got a

He has called

legs are dangling down from his

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

this idea that

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

it. So I wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

smirks

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you

he has

thickly. “Okay, here

to some girl, and my

same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his

unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

while the girl stares

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

leans in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

I stare at him.

beating

don’t say anything. 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. I don’t know what