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, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

and jealousy and focus on my friends.

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,

not cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a

Nathan. He has called a

dangling down

Kelly? She is drunk,

have this idea that I can’t hear

her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

Jake and

So I wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at

him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and

to know he has

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

in front of him.

mouth.

who are you?”

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey,

help but laugh. “What did you do that for,

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

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

beating really

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