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.

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

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

shake away all negative energy and

have

***

hours later, we aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know

cuddling

is drunk out of her mind.

got a

has called

and her legs are dangling down from

the bar. And Kelly?

to have this idea that I can’t hear

He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks

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

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this?

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 and tilts his

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey, she

laugh. “What did you do

was rude to you, so I made sure to

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

face as I stare at

is beating really

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