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.

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude,

Kelly claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t

energy and jealousy and focus on

to have fun.

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anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t

not cuddling

of her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called a

legs are dangling

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

to have this idea that I

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

wait. I order

fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

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

he has options.”

“Okay,

set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can!

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

this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

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

did you do that for, you

to

I’m speechless.

smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin.

is beating

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