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.

who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy

drinks.”

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

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

and jealousy and focus on my

have fun.

***

few hours 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,

cuddling

her

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has

legs are dangling down from his

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

have this idea that I can’t hear

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

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and

smirks

told her of my plans, and now even Logan is

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

leave Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl,

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

unwelcome flip,

forward.

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

mouth.

who are

but Jake beats me

There you are!”

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

him like a monkey, she

laugh. “What did you do that

was rude to you, so I made sure to put her

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

is beating really

realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know