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.

can we 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.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s

Kelly claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or something?

energy and jealousy and focus on my

have fun.

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

not cuddling with

out of her

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from

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

seems to have this idea

currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I

and have fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

know he has options.”

“Okay, here goes…

to some girl, and my heart pounds

this presence now. It feels like 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 his

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

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

laugh. “What did you do that for, you

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

makes a smug face as I stare at him.

is beating

brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked