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.

with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have fun.

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drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I

not cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a

has

are dangling down

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

this idea that I can’t hear

He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at me.

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some

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, and when

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl stares at us.

him like a monkey, she storms

laugh. “What did you

to you, so I made sure to put her

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

beating really

anything. 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