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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order some

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she

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

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have fun.

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

cuddling with

her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called a

dangling down from his lap.

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

have this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

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

wait. I

and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at me.

of my plans, and now even Logan

to know he has options.”

“Okay, here goes…

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

this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention.

this unwelcome

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

the girl stares at us. I’m

around him like a

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

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

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

a smug face as I stare at him.

is beating really

realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face.