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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

woman’s attitude,

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

shake away all negative energy and

to have fun.

***

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,

cuddling

of her mind.

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

He has called a

and her legs are dangling down

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

this idea that I can’t hear

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

it. So I wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

I told her of my plans,

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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

the same room or paying me attention. I’m already

unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

girl stares at us.

him like a monkey, she storms away.

help but laugh. “What did you do that for,

soft. “She was rude to you, so

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating really fast.”

are on Jake’s broad shoulders,