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.

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

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have fun.

***

but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and

cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a cab

and her legs are dangling down from his

Kelly?

to have this idea that

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

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

wait. I order shots with Rebel

fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks

him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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 I do

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

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

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are you?”

me

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

help but laugh. “What did you

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin.

beating

don’t 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