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.

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

drinks.”

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

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

***

hours later, we aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I

cuddling

out of her mind.

a

has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm

idea that I

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

I order shots

fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

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

know he has

“Okay,

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

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

unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are

Jake beats me

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on

him like a

help but laugh. “What did you do

was rude to you,

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

makes a smug face as I stare at him.

beating really

embarrassed. It’s 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. I don’t