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.

we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

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

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have fun.

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but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us.

not cuddling

of her

pregnant and got a babysitter, so

Nathan. He has called a

are dangling

bar. And Kelly? She

have this idea that I

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

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take

wait. I order shots

have fun, and

smirks at

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

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can

this presence 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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

“What did you do that

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

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

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

is beating

now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked