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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have

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hockey guys I don’t

not cuddling with

out of her mind.

and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a

are dangling down

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

idea that

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly

So I wait. I order shots with

laugh, and have fun,

smirks

small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even

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

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

the girl stares at us.

around him like a monkey, she storms away.

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

to you, so I made sure to

up. I’m speechless. I

he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really fast.”

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