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.

you’re finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order

drinks.”

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

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

negative energy and jealousy and

to 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

cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

a babysitter, so she

has called

dangling down from his lap.

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

have this idea

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

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and

I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks

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

know he

“Okay,

for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I

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 his head,

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are you?”

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

legs around him like a monkey, she storms

laugh. “What did

was rude to you, so I made sure to put

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

as I stare at him.

is beating really

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