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

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

and

have fun.

***

getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t

cuddling with

out of her mind. She

got a babysitter,

has called a cab

dangling

for Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about me.

this idea that I can’t hear

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots

have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

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

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds

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

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

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

are

at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I

legs around him like

can’t help but laugh. “What did you

soft. “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

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

is beating really

are on Jake’s broad