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,

drinks.”

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

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

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the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl

not cuddling with

out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down

the bar. And Kelly? She is

to have this idea that

is currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order

have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

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

know he has

thickly. “Okay, here

for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl,

when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey, she

help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

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

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

is beating really fast.”

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