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 would like for us

drinks.”

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

at her-I don’t know why Kelly

negative energy and

have fun.

***

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

cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She is

got a babysitter, so she is

has called

her legs are dangling down from his

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

seems to have this idea that I

He called a

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

wait. I order shots with

have fun, and

smirks

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the

he

“Okay, here goes…

leave 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 this? Yes. Yes,

same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks

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

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are

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

There you are!”

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

legs around him

“What did you do that

“She was rude to you, so I

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

stare at

beating really

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