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.

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

drinks.”

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

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

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

have

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

cuddling with

out of her mind.

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

has called a

and her legs are dangling down

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

idea that I can’t hear

called a cab

perfect for me.

said Jake and

So I wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun,

Rebel smirks at

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

to know he

thickly. “Okay,

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

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

this unwelcome flip,

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

are

me to it

There you are!”

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

him like a monkey, she storms away.

“What did you do that for, you

rude to you, so

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

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 onto his face. I don’t know