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.

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

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

negative energy and

have

***

few hours later, we aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake,

cuddling with

of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a

Nathan. He has called a

her legs are dangling down from his

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

to have this idea

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with

fun, and once Jake

smirks

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

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s scary…

like 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

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

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

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

around him like a monkey, she

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for,

to you, so I made sure to put her in

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

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

is beating really fast.”

are practically hugging. My hands are on