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.

I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone.

drinks.”

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

Kelly claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t

I shake away all negative 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, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl who feels

not cuddling with anyone.

her

got a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called a

are dangling

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

idea that I can’t hear

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t

wait. I

and have fun,

Rebel smirks at me.

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

Jake is talking to some girl,

this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m

him like a

did you do that for, you dork?!”

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

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating

practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say