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.

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

drinks.”

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

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

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have

***

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 who

not cuddling

out of her mind. She

and got a

has called

dangling down from his

bar. And Kelly?

to have this idea that I

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

perfect for me.

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

I

have fun, and

smirks

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

he has

“Okay, here

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do

boiling when he is in the same room or paying

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

who are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

while the girl stares

my legs around him like

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

all soft. “She was rude to you, so

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

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

is beating really fast.”

we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad