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.

on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order some

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her

all negative energy and jealousy and focus

have fun.

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bar. The hockey guys I

not cuddling with

out of her mind. She is

and got a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has

and her legs are dangling down from

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

seems to have this idea that I

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots with

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

her of my plans, and now even Logan is

he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

are

but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

from the ground while the girl stares at us.

him like a monkey, she

but laugh. “What did you

leans in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you,

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating

are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I