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.

Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s

her-I don’t

and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

have

***

we aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk 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

cuddling with

her mind.

got a

Nathan. He has called

legs are dangling down from his lap.

for Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

seems to have this idea that I

He called a

perfect for me.

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

I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks at

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

to know he

“Okay, here goes…

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

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

does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

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

mouth.

who are you?”

her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my

legs around him like a monkey,

can’t help but laugh. “What did you

all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made

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

stare at

beating really

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 face. I don’t know what to say or where to