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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would

drinks.”

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

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

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

to have fun.

***

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, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the

not cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind.

and got a babysitter,

has called a

dangling down from his

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t hear

called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

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

I order shots

have fun, and once Jake

smirks at

get him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s

has this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when

My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

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 place my hands on Jake’s

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

did you do

rude to you, so

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

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

beating

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 know what to say or where to