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.

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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have

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The hockey guys I

not cuddling with

her mind.

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called

legs are dangling down from his lap.

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

idea

busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

I

have fun,

Rebel smirks

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

who are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

laugh. “What did you do

was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

face as I stare at him.

beating

just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad