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.

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

drinks.”

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

shrug at her-I don’t know why

energy and jealousy and focus on

have

***

anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl

not cuddling

is drunk out of her mind.

got a babysitter, so she is

has called

are dangling

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

this idea that I

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

soon as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious,

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

and have fun,

smirks at me.

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

he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

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

did you do that for, you

to you, so I made sure to put her

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

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge

is beating really

as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s