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.

with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me.

and

to have fun.

***

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. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and

not cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called

and her legs are dangling down from

shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

have this idea that I can’t

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order

and have fun,

Rebel smirks at

of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans,

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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

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

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are you?”

eyebrow at 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.

legs around him like a monkey,

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

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

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

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really fast.”

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 what to say or