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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

drinks.”

confused by 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

all negative energy and

have

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hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t

not cuddling with

of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter,

has

dangling down from

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

this idea that I can’t

is currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

So I wait. I order

laugh, and have fun,

smirks

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

he has

“Okay,

corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes,

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

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

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

mouth.

are

Jake beats me

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that

to you, so I made sure to put

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

beating

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