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.

I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

energy and jealousy

have fun.

***

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

not cuddling with

out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a

with Nathan. He has called a

her legs are dangling down from his

are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

idea that I can’t hear

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

I

laugh, and have fun,

smirks at

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how

to know he

“Okay,

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

same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy,

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my

legs around him

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

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

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

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

is beating really

say 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 or where