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, says in a rather bitchy tone.

drinks.”

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

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

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

have

***

few 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

not cuddling with

is drunk out of her

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

has called

are dangling down

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

have this idea that I can’t hear

busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks

of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

to know he

“Okay,

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

same room or paying me

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

forward.

in front of him.

mouth.

are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

squeezed 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 place my hands

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

did you do that for,

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to

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

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

beating really fast.”

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