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.

so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before

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

and jealousy and focus on my

to have fun.

***

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,

cuddling with

of her mind. She is finally

got a

Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from his

by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

have this idea

ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks

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

he has

“Okay, here goes…

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

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

who are

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

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 I

him

laugh. “What did

to you, so I made sure to

speechless. I didn’t expect

and he makes a smug face as I stare at

beating really

my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his