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 a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude,

hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

all negative energy and

to have

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

cuddling

out of her mind.

got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has

are dangling down from his lap.

the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

this idea that I can’t hear

ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake

So I wait. I order shots

and have fun,

smirks at

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s

to know he

“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

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

in front of him.

mouth.

are

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

There you are!”

while the girl stares at us.

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

but laugh. “What did you do that

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

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

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

is beating really fast.”

hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes