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.

on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she

me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me.

shake away all negative energy and

to have fun.

***

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,

cuddling

of her mind.

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

Kelly? She

this idea that I

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

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t

wait. I order

have fun,

smirks at

him,” she 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

know he

“Okay,

talking to some girl,

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

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

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are you?”

me

There you are!”

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

him

laugh. “What did you do

was rude to you, so I made sure to

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

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

beating really fast.”

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