The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 27

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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

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

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

and jealousy and focus on

to have fun.

***

drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan,

not cuddling with

of her

and got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit

this idea that

called

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly

wait. I order

fun, and once Jake

smirks

her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster

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

unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

legs around him like a monkey, she storms

help but laugh. “What did you do

was rude to you, so I made sure to put

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

he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really

we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto

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