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, says in a rather bitchy

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

of her mind. She

a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called a

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

this idea

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

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and

So I wait. I

and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks

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

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay,

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

has this 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

this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are

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

laugh. “What did you do that for,

leans in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

makes a smug face as I stare at

beating really fast.”

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