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.

you’re finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

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

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

energy and jealousy

to have

***

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

cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so

Nathan. He has called

and her legs are dangling down from

are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

to have this idea that I

called a cab

perfect for me.

confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

I wait. I

fun, and once

smirks at

While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

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

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

this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are you?”

Jake beats me

There you are!”

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

around him like a monkey, she

did you do that for, you dork?!”

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

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

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

beating

don’t say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just 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 to go,