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.

we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

drinks.”

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

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

energy and

to have

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

not cuddling with anyone.

her mind.

a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has called a cab

dangling down from

bar. And Kelly?

this idea

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

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I

and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks

of my plans,

he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this?

It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room

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

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

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

“She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

smug face as I stare at

beating really

anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain 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