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 before, says in a

drinks.”

other woman’s

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

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 with anyone.

her mind. She is

got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a

are dangling down from

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

to have this idea that

ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

I wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at

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

he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I

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,

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like

can’t help but laugh. “What did

soft. “She was rude to you,

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

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

beating really

are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face.