The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 33

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.

never met

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before

me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

and

to have fun.

***

drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl who

cuddling

her

pregnant and got a babysitter,

He has called a cab

dangling down from his lap.

And Kelly? She

this idea that I can’t hear

her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots

have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you

to know he has

“Okay, here goes…

the bar. Jake is talking to some

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

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

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are

at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares

legs around him like a monkey, she

“What did you do that

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so

I’m speechless. I didn’t

I stare at

beating really fast.”

say 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, eyes

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