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

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the 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 Jake told her about me or something?

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

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

cuddling with anyone.

her mind.

a babysitter, so she

He has

legs are dangling

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

have this idea that

He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

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

I order shots with Rebel and

have fun, and

smirks

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

he has options.”

“Okay, here goes…

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

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention.

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us.

and wrap my legs around him like a

laugh. “What did you do that for, you

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

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

as I stare at him.

is beating

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