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.

met before,

drinks.”

other woman’s

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

have fun.

***

hours later, 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

not cuddling

of her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she

has

her legs are dangling

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

this idea that I can’t hear

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and

it. So I wait. I order

laugh, and have fun,

Rebel smirks at

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the guy

know he has

thickly. “Okay, here

the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and

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

does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

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

mouth.

who are you?”

but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl stares at

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

laugh. “What did you

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

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

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

beating really fast.”

say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my 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,