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.

so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone.

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude,

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

negative energy and

have

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hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us.

not cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

got a

has called a cab

legs are dangling down

the bar. And Kelly? She

have this idea that I

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

I order shots with Rebel and

have fun, and

Rebel smirks

small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

know he has options.”

“Okay, here goes…

the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s scary…

he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

who are you?”

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

know it, 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

around him like a monkey, she storms

“What did you do that for, you dork?!”

soft. “She was rude to you,

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

stare at him.

is beating really fast.”

if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes