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.

met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

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

me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy

have

***

few hours 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

out of her

and got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from

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

seems to have this idea that

called a

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots

fun, and once Jake is

smirks at

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the guy

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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 this?

feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at

legs around him like a

did you do that

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

speechless. I didn’t

makes a smug face as I stare

is 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 face. I don’t know what to say or