The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 20

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

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude,

her-I don’t

and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have fun.

***

we aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice,

not cuddling with

her mind.

and got a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

idea

called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

I wait. I

fun, and

smirks at

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

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl,

in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and

this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

my legs around him

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

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

up. I’m speechless.

and he makes a smug face as I stare at

beating really fast.”

we are practically hugging. My hands are on

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