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.

we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

woman’s attitude,

at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t

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

have

***

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

cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She is

a

with Nathan. He has called a cab

her legs are dangling

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

seems to have this idea that I can’t hear

ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun,

Rebel smirks at me.

small of my back. 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

he has

“Okay, here

leave Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl,

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

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

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

are

beats me to it

There you are!”

a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl

legs around him like a monkey,

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

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

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

a smug face as I stare at

is beating really fast.”

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