The Alpha’s Fight for His Omega by Jess K

Chapter 39

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.

never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

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

her-I don’t know why Kelly

and

have fun.

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a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well

cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter,

He has called a

dangling down

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

seems to have this idea that

called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I

and have fun, and once Jake

smirks

plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay,

the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds

feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his head,

unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

the girl stares at us.

him

help but laugh. “What did

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

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really fast.”

are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes

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