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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone.

drinks.”

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

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

shake away all negative energy and

have fun.

***

The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice,

cuddling with anyone.

of her mind.

and got a babysitter, so she

He has

her legs are dangling down from

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

smirks

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

know he has

“Okay, here goes…

Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

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

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The

legs around him

“What did you do that for, you dork?!”

rude to you, so I made

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

stare at him.

is beating really

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