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.

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

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude,

claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her

and got a

with Nathan. He has called a cab

dangling

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

idea that I can’t hear

He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

it. So I wait. I order shots with

have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at me.

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

he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes.

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

him.

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m

around him like a monkey, she storms

help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

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

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating really

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or