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.

we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I

drinks.”

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

shrug at her-I

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

***

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 me—the single girl

cuddling

of her mind. She

got a babysitter, so she

He has called a cab

are dangling down from his lap.

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

seems to have this idea

He called a

perfect for me.

soon as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

So I wait. I order shots

fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

I told her of my plans, and

know he

thickly. “Okay, here

corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl,

my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or

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

forward.

him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are

me to it by

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like

“What did you

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

smug face as I stare at

is beating really fast.”

practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go,