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

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have fun.

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t

cuddling with

of her mind. She

a babysitter, so

with Nathan. He has called

and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

to have this idea

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with Rebel

and have fun,

Rebel smirks

pushes 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 feel. It’s not wrong-the

to know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

to some girl, and

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

stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

while the girl stares at us.

wrap my legs around him like a

“What did you do

was rude to you, so I

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

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

beating really fast.”

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 to