The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 31

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.

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

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus

have

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at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan,

cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She is

got a

has called a

her legs are dangling down from

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

to have this idea that

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

perfect for me.

gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks at

plans, and now

he has

“Okay,

is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster

feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and

unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are

but Jake beats me

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m

around him like a monkey,

but laugh. “What did

rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

makes a smug face as I stare at him.

is beating really

hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto

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