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.

with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

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

have

***

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 single girl

not cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her

got a

He has called

dangling down from

by the bar. And Kelly? She is

idea that I

He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and once

smirks

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you

he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

to some girl, and my heart pounds faster

blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

laugh. “What did you

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

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

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

beating really fast.”

are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto