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.

never met before, says in

drinks.”

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

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have fun.

***

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

cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a

He has called a cab

dangling down from his

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

this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with

have fun, and once Jake is

smirks

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this?

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares

and wrap my legs around him like a

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

all soft. “She was rude to you, so

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating

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