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.

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

drinks.”

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

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

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

to have

***

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,

cuddling

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

and got a

with Nathan. He has

dangling

bar. And Kelly? She is

to have this idea

ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t

I wait. I order

and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks at

she pushes the 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.

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some

presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us.

my legs around him like

did you do that for, you

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

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

a smug face as I stare at him.

is beating really fast.”

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