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 a rather bitchy tone. “I

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

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

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

to have fun.

***

The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the

not cuddling with anyone.

her

got a babysitter, so

He has called

dangling down from his

are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

this idea

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

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order

and have fun, and once

smirks at me.

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

he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

leave Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some

blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl

around him like a monkey, she storms

did you do

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

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

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

is beating really

if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,