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.

met before,

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

all negative energy and

to have fun.

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a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly,

not cuddling

of her

a babysitter, so she is

has called

her legs are dangling down from

Kelly? She

seems to have this idea

is currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and

it. So I wait. I order shots with

have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay,

is talking to some

boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention.

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey, she

did

rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating really fast.”

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