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.

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

drinks.”

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

me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or something?

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

have

***

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,

cuddling with anyone.

of her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she

He has called a

are dangling down

are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

have this idea that I can’t

He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

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

I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and

Rebel smirks

of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is

he has options.”

“Okay, here

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s

in the same room or paying me

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

the girl stares at

legs around him like a monkey, she

but laugh. “What did you do that for,

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

speechless. I didn’t

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

beating

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