The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 17

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 rather bitchy tone. “I would

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before

and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

energy and jealousy and focus

to have

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guys I

not cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

has called a cab

dangling down from his

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

to have this idea that I can’t hear

ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

it. So I wait. I

have fun, and

Rebel smirks

her of my plans, and now even

to know he

“Okay, here goes…

Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds

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

this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are

Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl

wrap my legs around him

did you do that for, you

all soft. “She was rude to you, so

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

smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating really fast.”

My hands are

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