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.

who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

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

Kelly claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or something?

all negative energy and

have

***

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 who

not cuddling with

out of her mind.

and got a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called

dangling down

for Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

have this idea that I can’t

her. He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

wait. I order shots with

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks at

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

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts

this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are

Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

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

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating really fast.”

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