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

drinks.”

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

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

energy and jealousy

to have fun.

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She is

a babysitter,

He has

her legs are dangling

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and

to have this idea

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at me.

get him,” she pushes the small of 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 wrong-the

to know he

“Okay, here goes…

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 dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his head,

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

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

who are

at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

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

him

“What did you do that for,

voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

I stare

beating really

embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know