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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have fun.

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

cuddling

her mind. She

a babysitter, so

He has called

her legs are dangling down

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking

this idea

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or

wait. I order

have fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

I told her of my plans, and

to know he has options.”

“Okay, here

Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

laugh. “What did you do that

to you,

speechless.

a smug face as I stare

is beating really

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

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