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, says in a rather

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

to have fun.

***

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, and me—the single girl who feels

cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She

a babysitter, so

Nathan. He has called a cab

legs are dangling down from

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

have this idea that

He called a

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

smirks at

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

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and

the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are you?”

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl

him like a monkey, she storms

help but laugh. “What did you do

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

speechless. I

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

is beating really fast.”

we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,