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.

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

drinks.”

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

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

and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

her

a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called a cab

are dangling down

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and

this idea

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

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots

have fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you

know he has options.”

“Okay, here goes…

course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and

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

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

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

“What did you do that for, you

rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

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

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

beating really fast.”

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 to go, and