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.

who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

have

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I

cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

has

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

have this idea

ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

wait. I order shots

have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

of my plans, and now even Logan

to know he has options.”

“Okay, here

talking to some girl, and

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,

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

front of him. The

mouth.

are

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

There you are!”

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

around him like a monkey, she storms

help but laugh. “What did you

voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

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

is beating

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