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.

can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have

***

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

not cuddling with

of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter,

He has called

and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

idea

ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake

I wait. I order shots with Rebel

and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at me.

him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

he has options.”

“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, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though

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

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once

around him like a monkey, she storms away.

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for,

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

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

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

is beating really fast.”

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.