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,

drinks.”

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

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have

***

a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel,

cuddling with

drunk out of her

pregnant and got a babysitter, so

has called

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

bar. And Kelly?

idea that I can’t hear

He called

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

wait. I order shots

fun, and once

Rebel smirks at

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he

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

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place

and wrap my legs around him like

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating

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.