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.

finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says

drinks.”

by the other 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 something?

energy and jealousy and focus

to have fun.

***

getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan,

cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has called a cab

legs are dangling down from his

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

idea

her. He called a

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

wait. I order shots with Rebel

and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks

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

he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

who are

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

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 place

him like

did you do

to you, so I made sure to put her

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin.

is beating really fast.”

that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad