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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I

drinks.”

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

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy

to have fun.

***

a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly,

not cuddling

out of her

got a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has

her legs are dangling down

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

have this idea that I can’t

her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

I wait. I

fun,

Rebel smirks

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel.

he has

thickly. “Okay, here

Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even

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 and tilts his head,

does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are you?”

beats me to

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

all soft. “She was rude to you,

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin.

is beating really fast.”

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