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.

so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly

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

have

***

at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and

cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

He has

her legs are dangling down from

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

seems to have this idea that I can’t hear

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

fun, and once

smirks at me.

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how

to know he

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

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

unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

are

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

did you do that for, you dork?!”

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

is beating really

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