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.

on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says

drinks.”

other woman’s

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

and jealousy and focus

to have fun.

***

hours later, 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,

not cuddling with

her mind.

got a babysitter, so she is

He has

are dangling down from

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t

So I wait. I order shots

have fun,

Rebel smirks at

get him,” 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

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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

has 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 he looks

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are

but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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

around him like a

“What did

rude to you, so I made sure

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

face as I stare at

beating

hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go, and