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.

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

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or something?

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

to have fun.

***

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

not cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She

a babysitter, so

Nathan. He has called a cab

are dangling

the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

idea that I

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

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once

Rebel smirks

of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

he

“Okay, here

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some

when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and

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

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are you?”

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And

him like a monkey, she

“What did

soft. “She was rude to you, so I

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

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

is beating

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