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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

woman’s attitude,

hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

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

to have

***

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, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl who feels

not cuddling with

out of her mind. She is finally

a babysitter, so she

has called

and her legs are dangling down from

the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about me.

idea that

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

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks

plans, and now

know he

“Okay, here goes…

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

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

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a

help but laugh. “What did you

soft. “She was rude to you, so

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

is beating really

say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad