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.

never met before,

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have

***

a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan,

cuddling with

out of her mind. She is

a babysitter,

has called

her legs are dangling down from

by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about me.

this idea

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is

know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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,

when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when

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

forward.

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

mouth.

are

at her, but Jake beats me to

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

him like a monkey, she storms away.

did you

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

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

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

beating

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