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.

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

drinks.”

woman’s

her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her

all negative energy and

have fun.

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

of her

and got a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

Kelly? She

idea that I

called a

perfect for me.

as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his

I order shots with Rebel

and have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

know he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

the bar and set the course 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,

is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place

legs around him like a monkey, she

did you do

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

is beating

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