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.

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

drinks.”

woman’s attitude,

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

energy and jealousy and focus

to have fun.

***

few 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,

not cuddling with

of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has

dangling down from his lap.

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

this idea

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

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or

I wait. I order shots with

fun, and once

smirks

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the

to know he has options.”

“Okay,

the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even

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

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

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

but laugh. “What did you do

to you, so I made sure to put her in

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

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

is beating

hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what