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, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

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

and jealousy and focus

have fun.

***

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,

not cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a

Nathan. He has called a cab

are dangling

are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

have this idea that I

called

perfect for me.

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

wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

smirks at

my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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

this presence now. It 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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

me

There you are!”

while the girl stares at us.

my legs around him like a

laugh. “What did you

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

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really fast.”

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