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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

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

claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have

***

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

cuddling with

out of her mind. She

and got a babysitter, so

He has called a cab

legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

this idea that I can’t hear

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

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and

So I wait. I order

and have fun,

smirks

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

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl,

It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

standing in front of him. The

mouth.

who are you?”

me to it

There you are!”

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 hands on

him like a monkey,

but laugh. “What did

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

up. I’m speechless.

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

is beating really

don’t say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,