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.

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

drinks.”

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

shrug at her-I don’t know why

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

to have

***

hours later, 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,

cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and

this idea that I can’t hear

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

I order shots with Rebel and

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

he has options.”

thickly. “Okay,

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

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

unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

her, but Jake beats me to it by

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

but laugh. “What did you

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

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

beating really

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