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.

who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she

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

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

have fun.

***

we 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 who feels

cuddling

her mind. She

got a

has called

legs are dangling down from

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking

seems to have this idea

He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

it. So I wait. I

fun,

smirks

get him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my

around him like a monkey,

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

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

speeds up. I’m speechless.

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

is beating really fast.”

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 what to say or where to go, and