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.

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

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s

her-I don’t

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

have fun.

***

hours later, we aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan,

not cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She

and got a babysitter, so she

has called a

her legs are dangling

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

have this idea that

He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will

I

fun, and once Jake is

smirks at me.

her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I

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

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

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

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

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so

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

I stare at him.

is beating really fast.”

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