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.

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

drinks.”

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

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy

have fun.

***

hours later, we aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know

cuddling with anyone.

of her mind. She is finally

and got a

He has called a

dangling down from his

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit

this idea

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or

So I wait. I order

fun, and once

Rebel smirks

told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell

to know he has

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster.

boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

beats me to it

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

legs around him

“What did you do that for,

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

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

beating really

my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know