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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone.

drinks.”

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

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

have

***

drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan,

cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is

a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called

her legs are dangling

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

have this idea that I can’t hear

her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

Jake

I order shots with

fun, and

smirks at

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

he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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

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 he looks

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

in front of him. The

mouth.

are

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me

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

my legs around him like

but laugh. “What did you

soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her

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

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

beating

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what