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.

can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

her-I don’t know why Kelly

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have

***

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

not cuddling

out of her mind.

got a

Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

seems to have this idea

busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly

I order

fun, and

smirks at

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

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

he is in the same room or

stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

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

help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

to you, so I

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

a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

beating really

anything. I’m 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