The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 28

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 a rather

drinks.”

woman’s attitude,

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy

to have

***

The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with

cuddling

out of her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she

He has called a

legs are dangling down from

the bar. And Kelly?

seems to have this idea that

her. He called a cab for her. That,

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

I order shots

and have fun,

smirks at me.

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel.

know he has

“Okay,

the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart

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

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are

but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us.

my legs around him like a

help but laugh. “What did you

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

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

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

beating

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

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