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.

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

drinks.”

woman’s attitude,

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

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t

not cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so

with Nathan. He has called a cab

are dangling down from his

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

this idea that

her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious,

So I wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks

back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

know he

thickly. “Okay,

Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do

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

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

around him like a

did you do that for, you

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put

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

face as I stare at him.

beating really

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say

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