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.

can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

all negative energy and jealousy

to have fun.

***

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 Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single

not cuddling with

is drunk out of her

and got a babysitter,

has called a cab

are dangling

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

this idea that

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots

and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan

know he has

thickly. “Okay, here

bar. Jake is talking to

he is in the same room

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

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying,

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. The girl is shocked. And once I place my

and wrap my legs around him like a

laugh. “What did you do

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

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

is beating

now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on