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. “I

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude,

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

away all negative energy and jealousy and

have fun.

***

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

cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She

got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

have this idea that

He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

wait. I

fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

bar. Jake is talking to

like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy,

unwelcome flip, and

forward.

in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

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

legs around him

but laugh. “What did

to

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

as I stare at him.

beating really

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