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.

you’re 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 to order some

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

have

***

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

not cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a

has called a cab

her legs are dangling down from

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

this idea that I can’t

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called

perfect for me.

my feelings. Mark said Jake and

I wait. I

and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans,

know he has

“Okay, here goes…

Jake is talking to some girl, and my

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

unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

are

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once

my legs around him like

“What did you do

soft. “She was rude to

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

a smug face as I stare

beating really

practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s