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

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have

***

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 with

drunk out of her mind. She

got a

He has

legs are dangling down from

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

this idea that

called a

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

I wait. I order shots with Rebel

have fun, and

smirks at

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 you feel. It’s not wrong-the

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

of the bar. Jake is talking to

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

who are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

the girl stares at

wrap my legs around him like

laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

smug face as I stare

beating really

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