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.

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

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude,

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have

***

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,

cuddling with anyone.

of her mind. She

and got a

with Nathan. He has called a

legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

idea that

called a

perfect for me.

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

I order shots with Rebel

have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds

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

this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

the girl stares

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

help but laugh. “What did you do that for,

to you, so I made sure to put her in

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

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

beating really

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