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.

I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have fun.

***

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

not cuddling

out of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so

has called a

are dangling down from

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

this idea that I

ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and

it. So I wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and

Rebel smirks at

told her of my plans, and now

to know he has

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

and Rebel by the bar and 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

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

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

mouth.

who are

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey, she storms

“What did you do that for, you

all soft. “She was rude to you,

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

makes a smug face as I stare at him.

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 where to go,