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.

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

drinks.”

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 about me or

negative energy and

to have

***

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

cuddling with

her

got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

this idea

called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots

have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at

my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

to know he

“Okay, here

bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I

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

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are

beats me to

There you are!”

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

him like a monkey, she

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

“She was rude to you, so I

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

stare at him.

beating really

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