The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 30

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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

I shake away all negative energy and

have

***

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

cuddling

out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so

has

her legs are dangling down

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t

ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and

So I wait. I

and have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

he

“Okay,

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

blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention.

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

him. The girl

mouth.

who are

beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

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

“What did you do that

was rude to you, so

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

beating really fast.”

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or

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