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.

drinks.”

other woman’s

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

have

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I

cuddling

of her mind.

pregnant and got a

has called a cab

legs are dangling down from

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

this idea that I can’t hear

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks

small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay,

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I

It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

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

but laugh. “What did you do that for,

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I

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

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

beating really

anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,