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 like for us

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s

looks at me questioningly. I shrug 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

***

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

not cuddling

out of her

got a babysitter,

has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

idea that I can’t hear

her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order

fun, and once Jake

smirks

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 feel. It’s

he

“Okay, here goes…

bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and

is in the same room or paying me attention.

stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

who are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares

my legs around him like a monkey, she

but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

“She was rude to you, so

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

face as I stare at

is beating really

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