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.

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

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she

shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

have fun.

***

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

cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She is

got a babysitter, so she

He has

dangling

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

to have this idea

busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will

I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun,

Rebel smirks at

plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the

he

thickly. “Okay, here

of the bar. 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

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 up and tilts his head,

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

front of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

I know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked.

him like a monkey, she

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

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

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

is beating really fast.”

realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go,