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 before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude,

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy

have fun.

***

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.

cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind. She is

a

with Nathan. He has called

are dangling down from his lap.

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

have this idea that I can’t hear

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots

fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks

I told her of my plans, and now

know he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do

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

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

him.

mouth.

are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

my legs around him

help but laugh. “What did you do that

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

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

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

is beating really fast.”

if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are