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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy

have fun.

***

getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know

not cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She

a babysitter, so

has called a cab

dangling down

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

this idea

called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

I wait. I order shots

and have fun,

Rebel smirks

told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay,

Rebel 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. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already

does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

I’m 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

and wrap my legs around him like a

“What did you do that for,

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

face as I stare at him.

beating really

now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad