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.

never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

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

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

all negative energy and jealousy

have fun.

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hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us.

cuddling with

out of her mind. She

a babysitter, so she

He has called

are dangling down from his

for Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

seems to have this idea that I can’t

ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

and have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at

While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

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

this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are

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 once I place my

legs around him like a monkey, she storms

laugh. “What did you do

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

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

is beating really

practically hugging. My hands are