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.

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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

all negative energy and

have

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the 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,

not cuddling

of her mind. She is

a

Nathan. He has

and her legs are dangling down from his

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit

this idea that I

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t

wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and

smirks

plans, and now even Logan

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 pounds faster and faster. Can

blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy,

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey,

but laugh. “What did you do

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

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

beating really

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