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.

met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about

energy and jealousy and

to have

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hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well

not cuddling with

of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a

dangling down

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

seems to have this idea

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

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans,

to know he

thickly. “Okay,

by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I

this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up

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

forward.

of him.

mouth.

who are you?”

but Jake beats me

There you are!”

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

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

but laugh. “What did

“She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

speechless. I didn’t

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really

hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his