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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone.

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

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

I shake away all negative energy and

have fun.

***

a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake,

not cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind.

a babysitter, so

has called a

her legs are dangling down from

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

have this idea that

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

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly

So I wait. I

have fun, and once Jake

smirks

plans, and

to know he has

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

who are you?”

me

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at

and wrap my legs around him

“What did

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

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

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

is beating really fast.”

my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are