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.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

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

and jealousy 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.

of her mind.

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has

her legs are dangling down from

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

seems to have this idea that I can’t hear

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

wait. I order

and have fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

she pushes the small 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

same room or paying me attention. I’m

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

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

“What did you do that

rude to you, so

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

and he makes a smug face as I stare at

is beating really

are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what