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 bitchy tone. “I

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

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

and

to have

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hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly,

cuddling with

her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter,

has called

dangling

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

idea that I can’t

her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots with Rebel and

have fun,

Rebel smirks at

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

to know he has

thickly. “Okay,

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this?

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

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m

him

but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

to you, so

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating really

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