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, says in a rather bitchy

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes

away all negative energy and jealousy

have fun.

***

later, we aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know

cuddling

drunk out of her mind.

a babysitter, so she is

He has called a

her legs are dangling down from

by the bar. And Kelly?

have this idea that I can’t hear

ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots

have fun, and

smirks

While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the guy

he has options.”

swallow 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!

blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

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

mouth.

who are you?”

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

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl

him like a monkey, she storms away.

laugh. “What did you do that for, you

voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating really

I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,