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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

have

***

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

her

and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has

dangling

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

have this idea that I can’t

busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious,

wait. I order

and have fun, and

Rebel smirks

her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster.

boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention.

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

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

are

Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on Jake’s

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

help but laugh. “What did you do that

was rude to you, so

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

is beating really

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