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.

you’re finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

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

energy and jealousy and

to have fun.

***

but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with

cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She

a

with Nathan. He has

her legs are dangling

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about me.

seems to have this idea that I can’t

called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots

fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at

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

to know he

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

same

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us.

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

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

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to

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

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

beating

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