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.

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

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

at her-I

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have fun.

***

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

not cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter,

has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from

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

seems to have this idea that I

called

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I

So I wait. I order

have fun,

smirks at

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

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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? Yes. Yes, I

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are

at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on

around him like a monkey, she

did you do that for, you

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I

speechless. I didn’t expect

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

beating really fast.”

are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,