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.

met before, says in a rather bitchy

drinks.”

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

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has called a

are dangling

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

seems to have this idea that I

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

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun,

smirks at

him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan

he has

“Okay, here

Rebel by the bar 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,

has this presence now. It 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

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

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are you?”

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

legs around him like

laugh. “What did you do that for,

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

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

as I stare

is beating

that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face.