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.

who I’ve never met before, says

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before

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

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

to have fun.

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at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the

not cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind.

and got a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called a

legs are dangling

the bar. And Kelly? She is

idea that I can’t

ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

So I wait. I

and have fun, and once

smirks at

get him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you

to know he has

thickly. “Okay, here

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

It 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 by

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on Jake’s

my legs around him

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

he makes a smug face as I stare at him.

is beating really

hands are on Jake’s