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.

met before, says in

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

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

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

to have fun.

***

a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl who

cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She

a babysitter, so she is

He has called a

are dangling down from

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

to have this idea that

her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at

of my plans, and now even

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

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

feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same

unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

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

around him like

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

voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

I’m speechless. I

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

beating really

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 where