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.

so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before

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

and jealousy and focus

to have fun.

***

a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well

not cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has called

are dangling down

Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

seems to have this idea

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

he has options.”

“Okay, here

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

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

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

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

ground while the girl stares at us. I’m

him like a monkey, she storms

“What did you

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

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

is beating

hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked