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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

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

and jealousy and focus on my

have

***

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, Rebel, Kelly, Jake,

not cuddling with

her mind. She

pregnant and got a

has

dangling

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking

seems to have this idea

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

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with

and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is

he has

thickly. “Okay,

and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us.

and wrap my legs around him like

laugh. “What did you do that for,

leans in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made

speechless.

a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating really fast.”

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