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 bitchy tone. “I would

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds

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

and jealousy

to have fun.

***

we aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t

not cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter, so

He has

her legs are dangling

bar. And Kelly? She is

this idea that I can’t hear

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

said Jake and

wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and once Jake

smirks at

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s

to know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay,

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,

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I

wrap my legs around him like

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to

speechless. I didn’t

and he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

beating

are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to