The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 10

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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

other woman’s

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

have

***

I don’t

not cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has called a

legs are dangling down from his

by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about me.

seems to have this idea that

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and once

smirks at

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

know he has

thickly. “Okay,

by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to

this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

in front of him.

mouth.

are

but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place

legs around him like

“What did you

to you, so I made

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

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

is beating

anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked

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