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.

never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she

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

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

have fun.

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

cuddling

drunk out of her mind.

and got a babysitter, so she is

has called a cab

legs are dangling down from his

shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

to have this idea that I can’t hear

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

perfect for me.

gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

smirks at

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

know he has

“Okay, here goes…

Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to

blood is boiling when he is in the same room

unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are

but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

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

and wrap my legs around him like a

laugh. “What did you do that

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

a smug face as I stare

beating

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