The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 25

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.

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

drinks.”

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

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

shake away all negative energy and

to have fun.

***

I don’t know well

cuddling

her

a babysitter, so she

has called a

and her legs are dangling down from his

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

idea that I can’t

He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

I wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

told her of my plans, and now even

he

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

who are

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey,

help but laugh. “What did

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

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

I stare at him.

beating

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

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