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,

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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 her about me or something?

all negative energy and

to have fun.

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at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t

not cuddling with

her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a

He has called a cab

her legs are dangling

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

have this idea that I can’t hear

He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious,

wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at me.

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

he

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s scary…

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 his

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

did you do

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating

hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where