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.

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

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have fun.

***

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

not cuddling

her

pregnant and got a

He has called a cab

dangling down

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

idea

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun,

Rebel smirks at

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

to know he has

thickly. “Okay,

the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to

blood is boiling when he is in the same

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

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

did you do

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really fast.”

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