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.

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I

drinks.”

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

questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or something?

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have

***

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. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl who

not cuddling

of her mind. She is finally

a babysitter,

has

and her legs are dangling down from his

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about

this idea

ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and

I wait. I order shots with

fun, and once

Rebel smirks at

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.

to know he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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

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

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I

my legs around him

laugh. “What did you do that for, you

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

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

he makes a smug face as I stare at

beating really fast.”

are practically hugging. My hands are