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.

on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

have fun.

***

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

cuddling with

of her

and got a babysitter, so she

has called

are dangling down from his lap.

the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and

this idea that I can’t hear

He called

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun,

Rebel smirks at

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

he

“Okay,

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

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

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me

There you are!”

a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

“What did you do that for, you

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

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

is beating

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