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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds

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

all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have

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a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us.

cuddling with

of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so she is

has

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm

this idea that I can’t hear

ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks at

back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay,

and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes.

feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention.

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

I know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl

him like a

“What did you do

rude to you, so

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

as I stare at

beating really fast.”

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