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.

I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order

drinks.”

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

I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have fun.

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

not cuddling with

of her mind. She

and got a babysitter, so

with Nathan. He has called

her legs are dangling down from his

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

this idea that

He called

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with

and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

Jake is talking to some girl, and

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

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

standing in front of him.

mouth.

are

her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

he makes a smug face as I stare at him.

beating really

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