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.

never met before, says in

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude,

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

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, Logan, Rebel,

cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she

has

and her legs are dangling

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

this idea that I can’t

He called a

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

I wait. I order

have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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,

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

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a

but laugh. “What did you do that

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

smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

is beating really fast.”

we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know