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.

met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I

drinks.”

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

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

energy and jealousy and focus on

have

***

getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl who

not cuddling

is drunk out of her mind.

a babysitter,

has

dangling down from his lap.

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

have this idea that I

He called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will

So I wait. I

laugh, and have fun,

smirks at

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

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds

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

this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

front of him.

mouth.

who are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The

and wrap my legs around him

laugh. “What did you do that for, you

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

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

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

is beating

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t