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.

I’ve never met

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude,

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

to have

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hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and

cuddling with

her mind. She is finally

a babysitter,

Nathan. He has

legs are dangling down

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

to have this idea that

her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

said Jake

wait. I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks at me.

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

know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

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

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

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 hands

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

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

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

smug face as I stare

is beating really

are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t