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 would like for

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

energy and jealousy

to have

***

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

not cuddling with

drunk out of her mind.

got a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has called a cab

her legs are dangling

bar. And Kelly? She

this idea

He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

I

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks at

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

he has

“Okay,

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, I can! Even though

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

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

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

did you do that for,

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

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

and he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating really fast.”

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