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.

I’ve never met before, says

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have

***

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, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl who feels

cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She is

and got a babysitter, so

has called a

her legs are dangling down from

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking

seems to have this idea that I

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

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots

and have fun, and

smirks at me.

told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

know he has

“Okay,

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

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like

did you do that

to you, so I made sure to put her in

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

as I stare at

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.