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.

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

drinks.”

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

I shrug at her-I

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have fun.

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at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and

not cuddling with

out of her

pregnant and got a

has called

dangling down from his

by the bar. And Kelly?

have this idea that

ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

I order

fun, and once

smirks at me.

plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

to know he has

thickly. “Okay,

corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

who are you?”

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

the ground while the girl

wrap my legs around him like

help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

rude to you, so

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

beating

if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go, and