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.

finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

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

her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or something?

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have fun.

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hockey guys I

cuddling

is drunk out of her

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

has called

dangling down

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

seems to have this idea that

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

I order shots

fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

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

know he has

“Okay, here

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

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

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

mouth.

are

Jake beats me to it by saying,

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 wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

help but laugh. “What did you do

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

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

makes a smug face as I stare

beating

that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked