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.

you’re finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

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

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

and

to have fun.

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

cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind. She is finally

a babysitter, so she is

He has

and her legs are dangling down from his

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

idea that

ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even

he

thickly. “Okay,

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

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

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

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a

but laugh. “What did

was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

smug face as I stare

beating

are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his