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.

met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude,

her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me

energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

***

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,

cuddling with anyone.

of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so

He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is

idea that

called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

it. So I wait. I order shots with

and have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

of my plans,

he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

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

the same room or paying me attention.

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands

my legs around him like a monkey, she

but laugh. “What did you

was rude to you, so I made

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

stare

beating really

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