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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

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

Kelly claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her

all negative energy and jealousy and

have

***

a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the

cuddling

out of her mind.

a babysitter, so

has

dangling down from his

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

to have this idea that I

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

perfect for me.

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

I order shots with

laugh, and have fun,

Rebel smirks

told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

know he has

thickly. “Okay, here

the bar. Jake is talking to some girl,

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

him.

mouth.

are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

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

him like a monkey, she storms

“What did you do that for, you dork?!”

soft. “She was rude to you, so

up. I’m speechless. I

face as I stare at him.

is beating

now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where