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.

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

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

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

and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have fun.

***

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,

cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind.

got a

has called a cab

legs are dangling down from

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

to have this idea that I can’t hear

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

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

fun, and once Jake

smirks at

of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how

know he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes,

when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

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

legs around him like

“What did you do that

to you, so I made sure to put her in

speeds up. I’m speechless. I

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

beating

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 go,