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.

with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

energy and

to have

***

getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice,

not cuddling with

her mind.

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

I order shots with Rebel

and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at me.

told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the guy

know he

“Okay,

Jake is talking to some girl,

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 up

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are

her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

around him like a monkey, she storms

help but laugh. “What did you

“She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really

that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I