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 before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or

and jealousy and focus on my

have fun.

***

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,

cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She is

got a babysitter, so she is

has

are dangling

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

this idea that I can’t

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order

have fun, and once

smirks

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even

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 he looks up and tilts his head,

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl

around him like a monkey,

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

to you,

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

and he makes a smug face as I stare at

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,