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.

who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have fun.

***

few hours later, 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, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake,

not cuddling

out of her mind. She

a babysitter,

He has called

and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

to have this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and

smirks

she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

to know he

“Okay, here

the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and

It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

“What did you do

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

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

and he makes a smug face as I stare

beating really fast.”

hugging. My hands are on