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.

finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me or

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have

***

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

cuddling with

her mind. She is finally

a

has called a cab

are dangling down

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

seems to have this idea that

busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks at me.

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.

to know he

“Okay, here

for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s scary…

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

this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

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

mouth.

who are

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up 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

legs around him like a monkey, she

help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

was rude to you, so I made sure to

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

makes a smug face as I stare at him.

is beating really fast.”

we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked