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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

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

negative energy and

have

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

cuddling with anyone.

out of her

got a

Nathan. He has called a

are dangling

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm

to have this idea that I can’t hear

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots

fun,

smirks at

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell

to know he

“Okay,

corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and

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

does this unwelcome

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are you?”

Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey, she storms

but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

beating

are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his