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.

never met before, says in a

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

all negative energy and jealousy and

have fun.

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

her mind.

a babysitter, so she is

has called

her legs are dangling down

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

have this idea that I

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

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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

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

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

who are

but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

I know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl

him like a monkey, she storms away.

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

“She was rude to you,

speechless.

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

is beating really fast.”

I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my 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 say or where to go, and