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.

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

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

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

energy and

have

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hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan,

not cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a cab

legs are dangling down from

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

idea that I

called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will

wait. I order shots with

and have fun, and

smirks

of my plans, and now even

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

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

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

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey, she

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do

to you, so I

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating

if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go, and