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.

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

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my

to have

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

not cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

a babysitter, so she

He has called a

dangling down

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

have this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks

him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

talking to

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

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands

legs around him like a monkey,

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

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

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

is beating really

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 or where to