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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

at her-I don’t know

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have fun.

***

a bar. The hockey guys I

cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind.

a babysitter, so she is

He has

are dangling

bar. And Kelly? She is

seems to have this idea that I

called a cab for

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

I wait. I order shots

and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at

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

he has

“Okay,

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

presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

him. The

mouth.

who are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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 once I place my hands on Jake’s

legs around him

laugh. “What did you

to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

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

beating

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go,