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.

can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

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

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?

negative energy and jealousy

have fun.

***

The hockey guys I don’t

not cuddling with anyone.

of her mind. She

got a babysitter, so she

has called

are dangling down from

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

this idea that I can’t hear

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

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

have fun,

smirks

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

and 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

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he

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

forward.

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

mouth.

who are

beats me to

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.

around him like a monkey, she storms away.

but laugh. “What did you do

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

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating really

It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,