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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she

and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

have

***

The hockey guys I

not cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

got a

has called

are dangling down from

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

this idea that I can’t

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

I order

fun,

smirks at me.

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

he has options.”

“Okay,

to some girl, and my heart

in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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

around him like a

laugh. “What did

leans in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made

chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin.

is beating really fast.”

I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s