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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before

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

away all negative energy and

have

***

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

not cuddling

out of her mind.

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

He has called

legs are dangling down from his

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

idea that

her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will

it. So I wait. I order shots with

and have fun,

Rebel smirks at

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

know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

are

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked.

him like a monkey, she storms away.

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

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you,

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

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

beating really fast.”

It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes