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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order

drinks.”

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

at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or something?

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

have fun.

***

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

not cuddling with

her mind. She

a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has

and her legs are dangling down from his

And Kelly? She

have this idea that

called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots with

and have fun,

smirks at

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

know he has

“Okay, here

bar. Jake is talking to

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 he looks

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are

me to

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us.

legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

help but laugh. “What did you

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

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

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

is beating really

hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes