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.

we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

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

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

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

***

few hours later, we aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s

cuddling

of her mind. She

a babysitter, so

has called

dangling

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is

to have this idea

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

soon as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

So I wait. I order shots with

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

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

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay,

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

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

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a

laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

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

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

as I stare at

is beating

don’t say 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 what to say or where to go,