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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she

claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

negative energy and jealousy and focus

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.

cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She

a babysitter, so she is

has called a cab

dangling down

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

have this idea that I

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

So I wait. I order

laugh, and have fun,

Rebel smirks at me.

back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

he has

thickly. “Okay,

course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and

presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

of him. The

mouth.

who are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

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 shocked. The girl is shocked. And

around him like a monkey, she storms away.

can’t help but laugh. “What did

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

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

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

is beating really

embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s