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.

I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I

drinks.”

woman’s

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

I shake away all negative energy and

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 me—the single girl who

cuddling

of her mind. She is

got a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has

are dangling down

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

this idea

busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

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

I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

smirks

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

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster

when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

the girl stares

my legs around him like a

help but laugh. “What did you do

rude to you, so I

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

makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

beating

don’t say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his