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,

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude,

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

have fun.

***

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

cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she

has

her legs are dangling down from his

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

to have this idea that I can’t

her. He called

perfect for me.

Jake and

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks at

told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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

presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room

does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

front of him. The

mouth.

are

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked.

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

did you do that for, you

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made

speeds up. I’m speechless. I

smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

beating really fast.”

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