The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 34

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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

woman’s attitude,

looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

negative energy and jealousy and

have fun.

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bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with

not cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She

got a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has called a

are dangling down from

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking

this idea that I can’t hear

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

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take

I wait. I order

and have fun,

smirks

get him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

know he

thickly. “Okay, here

talking to some girl, and

blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention.

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a

did you do that

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

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

a smug face as I stare at

beating

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 locked onto his face. I don’t know what

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