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.

you’re finally 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 us to order some

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds

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

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

to have fun.

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hockey guys I don’t

not cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called a cab

legs are dangling down from his

Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

seems to have this idea

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

perfect for me.

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

I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and once

smirks at

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

he

“Okay,

is talking to some girl, and my

presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same

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

forward.

him. The

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on Jake’s

legs around him like a monkey, she

“What did you do that for, you dork?!”

rude to you, so I made sure

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

I stare at him.

beating really fast.”

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