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.

we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before she

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

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

have fun.

***

getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan,

not cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She is

and got a babysitter, so

has called a cab

dangling down

by the bar. And Kelly?

this idea that I

busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I

wait. I order

have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

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

he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

leave Logan and 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,

is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to it

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

laugh. “What did you do that

rude to you, so I made sure to

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

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

beating really

realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I