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.

finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before she

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

and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

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 anyone.

her mind. She is

and got a babysitter,

has called

legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

this idea that I

ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

I order shots with Rebel and

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 how you feel. It’s not

he

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and

has this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked.

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

“What did you do that for,

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

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

beating really fast.”

just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on