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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

her-I don’t

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

have fun.

***

at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s

not cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a

her legs are dangling down from

by the bar. And Kelly? She is

idea

He called a cab for

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

I

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at me.

plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel.

know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

leave Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart

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

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

forward.

him. The

mouth.

who are

but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once

him like a monkey, she

help but laugh. “What did

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure

speechless. I didn’t expect

stare at him.

is beating really

are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his

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