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.

we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

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

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

and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have fun.

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She

a babysitter,

has

and her legs are dangling down

the bar. And Kelly? She is

to have this idea that I

currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks at

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

to know he

“Okay,

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?

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention.

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

I know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us.

my legs around him like a

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for,

rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

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

is beating

realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,