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.

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

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes

negative energy and jealousy and

to have

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the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know

not cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

has called a

and her legs are dangling down from

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

this idea that

He called a

perfect for me.

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

I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

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

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

of him.

mouth.

are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

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

rude to you, so I made sure to put her

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really fast.”

practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t