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.

so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met

drinks.”

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

I shrug at her-I don’t

and jealousy and

have

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aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I

not cuddling with anyone.

of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a cab

legs are dangling

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

idea that

ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I

fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

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

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

this unwelcome flip,

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

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

around him like

but laugh. “What did you do

to you, so I made sure

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

is beating

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 what to say