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.

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

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude,

her 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?

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

to have fun.

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

and got a

Nathan. He has

her legs are dangling down

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm

have this idea that

called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots

and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at me.

told her of my plans, and now even Logan is

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s scary…

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

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

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

mouth.

who are you?”

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey, she

but laugh. “What did you do that

“She was rude to

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

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

is beating

hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked