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.

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

drinks.”

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

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

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

not cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind.

a babysitter, so

has called a

her legs are dangling down from

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is

to have this idea that

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly

I wait. I order shots with Rebel

and have fun, and once Jake

smirks

plans, and now even

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

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

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

this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

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

mouth.

are

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once

around him like

“What did you do

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

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

he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

is beating really fast.”

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 or