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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

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

her-I don’t know why Kelly

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to 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,

cuddling with

of her mind.

got a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has

and her legs are dangling down from

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

seems to have this idea that I

He called

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl,

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

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

around him like a monkey, she

can’t help but laugh. “What did

leans in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows

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 know what to say or where to go, and