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.

I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

her-I don’t know

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

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bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel,

cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She

a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called a cab

are dangling down from his lap.

the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit

to have this idea

currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

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

wait. I

fun, and once Jake is

smirks at me.

her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay,

talking to

is in the same room or paying me

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him

“What did you do that for, you dork?!”

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

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating really

don’t say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my 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 know what to say