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.

you’re finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude,

at her-I don’t

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

have fun.

***

but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us.

cuddling with

of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter,

has called

and her legs are dangling

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

to have this idea that I can’t hear

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

wait. I

fun,

smirks at

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

is talking to some girl, and my heart

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

who are you?”

but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on Jake’s

him like a monkey, she storms

laugh. “What did you do that

voice all soft. “She was rude to

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating

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 go,