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.

finally 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 us

drinks.”

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

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

have fun.

***

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, and me—the single girl

not cuddling

out of her mind. She is

a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has called

her legs are dangling

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

seems to have this idea that

currently busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

it. So I wait. I order shots with

have fun, and once Jake

smirks at

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

he has options.”

“Okay, here

Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my

he is in the same room

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

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!”

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

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

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

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

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

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

is beating really fast.”

realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes