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

drinks.”

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

I shrug at her-I don’t know why

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have fun.

***

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,

cuddling

out of her

pregnant and got a babysitter, so

He has called

her legs are dangling down from

by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm

seems to have this idea that

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

wait. I order shots with

have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

know he has

thickly. “Okay, here

of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can!

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

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

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a

but laugh. “What did you do that

was rude to you, so

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

beating really fast.”

It’s 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 to