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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s

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

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have

***

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

cuddling

of her mind. She is

got a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at

her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

he has

thickly. “Okay,

for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s

has this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

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

my legs around him

did you do

rude to you, so I made sure to

speeds up. I’m speechless. I

a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

beating really

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked