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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before

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

I shake away all negative energy and

have fun.

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at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t

not cuddling with

out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

has

and her legs are dangling down

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

seems to have this idea

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

perfect for me.

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

I

have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel.

know he has

thickly. “Okay,

and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some

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

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

help but laugh. “What did you do that

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

beating really fast.”

say 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 to say or where to go, and