The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 7

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.

can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy

have fun.

***

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

cuddling

drunk out of her

a

He has called

and her legs are dangling down from his

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

have this idea that

busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

it. So I wait. I order shots with

have fun, and once

Rebel smirks

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

he

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

is talking to some girl,

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same

stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

around him like a monkey, she storms

but laugh. “What did

“She was rude to you,

speeds up. I’m speechless.

smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

is beating really

my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face.

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