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

drinks.”

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

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 on my friends.

have

***

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, and

cuddling

her mind.

a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks at me.

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

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are you?”

at her, but Jake 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 a monkey,

did you do that

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

I’m speechless.

and he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

beating really fast.”

are practically hugging. My hands are on