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

don’t date nice guys, and

never met before, says in a rather bitchy

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me.

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

***

few hours later, we aren’t at 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

got a babysitter, so she is cuddling with Nathan. He has called a cab already, and her legs are

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

have this idea that I can’t hear her. Jake is currently busy ignoring her.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word for it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is alone, Rebel smirks at me.

even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the guy

thickly. “Okay,

is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster.

he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his head, smiling, I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

are you?”

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on Jake’s shoulders and wrap my

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do

rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

do that for me, and he makes a smug face as I

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 what to