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

drinks.”

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

Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

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, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl

not cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter,

He has called a cab

and her legs are dangling

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

idea that

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

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order

fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is

know he has

“Okay,

corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do

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

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are

beats me to it

There you are!”

girl stares at

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

laugh. “What did you do that

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

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really

practically hugging. My hands are on