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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

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

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have

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

not cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind. She is finally

got a

Nathan. He has called a

are dangling down from

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

have this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take

I order

laugh, and have fun,

smirks at

drinking, I told her of my plans, and

know he has options.”

“Okay, here goes…

Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster

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 some miracle,

forward.

of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are you?”

Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

the girl stares at

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

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

“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

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

beating

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