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.

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

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

***

few hours later, 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

not cuddling with

her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter,

He has called a cab

and her legs are dangling down from

Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

seems to have this idea that

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and

I order shots with Rebel

have fun, and once

smirks at me.

told her of my plans,

he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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, I can!

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

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

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are you?”

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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

him like a monkey, she storms away.

but laugh. “What did

“She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

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

and he makes a smug face as I stare at him.

beating really fast.”

as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where