The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 12

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

drinks.”

other woman’s

claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me.

energy and

to have

***

but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well

cuddling with

her

a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called

dangling

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

idea that I can’t hear

He called a

perfect for me.

is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and

it. So I wait. I order shots

have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at

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

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

is in the same room or paying me attention.

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

forward.

standing in front of him. The

mouth.

who are you?”

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

around him like a monkey, she storms away.

help but laugh. “What did

to you, so I

I’m speechless.

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

beating

hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face.

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