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 rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order some

drinks.”

other woman’s

and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have

***

a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan,

cuddling

her mind. She

got a babysitter, so she is

He has called

are dangling

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

seems to have this idea that I can’t

called a

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

I

have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks

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

know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

to some girl, and my heart

this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are

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

There you are!”

the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on

him like

“What did you do that for, you

“She was rude to you, so

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

a smug face as I stare

is beating really fast.”

anything. 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, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know