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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

***

The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the

cuddling with

out of her mind.

a babysitter, so she

has called a cab

are dangling down from his

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

seems to have this idea that I

busy ignoring her. He 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,

wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks

of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even

to know he has

“Okay, here

leave Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can!

boiling when he is in the same room

this unwelcome

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

who are

Jake beats me to

There you are!”

from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on Jake’s

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

help but laugh. “What did you do

to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

beating

that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked