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.

finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy

to 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.

not cuddling with

drunk out of her

and got a babysitter, so

He has called a

dangling

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

idea that I can’t hear

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order

and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

I told her of my plans, and now even

know he

thickly. “Okay,

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

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

him. The girl

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

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

to you, so I

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin.

beating

if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked