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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

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

and jealousy

have fun.

***

The hockey guys I don’t know

cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

He has

are dangling down from his

are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

to have this idea

He called a

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take

So I wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

to know he has

thickly. “Okay,

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

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

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

are

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

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

help but laugh. “What did

rude to you, so I made sure

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

he makes 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 don’t know