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

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude,

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

negative energy and

have fun.

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a

has called a cab

legs are dangling down from his

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

have this idea that I

her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order

and have fun, and once

smirks at me.

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

know he

“Okay,

for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and

is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

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

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are

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

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.

legs around him like a monkey, she

but laugh. “What did you do that for,

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

and he makes a smug face as I stare at him.

is beating really

I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are