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.

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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have

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hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t

not cuddling with

is drunk out of her

a babysitter, so she is

has called a

legs are dangling down from his

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

have this idea

He called

perfect for me.

as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and

smirks at

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

to know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster

when he is in the same room or paying me

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

are you?”

but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

my legs around him like a monkey, she

did you

“She was rude to you, so I made sure to put

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

beating really

It’s as 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 say or