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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

Kelly 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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have

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

cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She

got a babysitter, so she

He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

seems to have this idea that I can’t

He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and

wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how

know he

thickly. “Okay,

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

blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying

unwelcome flip, and

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

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

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

“What did you

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

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

is beating really fast.”

hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go,