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.

here, so 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.”

woman’s attitude, before

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

energy and jealousy and focus on

to have fun.

***

hours later, we aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t

not cuddling

out of her mind.

a babysitter, so she

He has called a

are dangling down from his lap.

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

seems to have this idea that I

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

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay,

and Rebel by the bar and set 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?

has this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

wrap my legs around him

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for,

leans in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so

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

makes a smug face as I stare at him.

is beating really

my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are