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.

who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

have

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

cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She is finally

a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called

her legs are dangling down from his

bar. And Kelly? She

idea that I can’t hear

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with Rebel

fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks

of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do

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

My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are

beats me

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

but laugh. “What did you do

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

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating

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