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.

met before,

drinks.”

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

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

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hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know

not cuddling with

of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called a

legs are dangling down

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

to have this idea

currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his

wait. I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is

he has

thickly. “Okay, here

of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my

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

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

forward.

in front of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

did you do that

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

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

I stare

beating really fast.”

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