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.

finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone.

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

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

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

to have fun.

***

but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well

not cuddling

out of her mind. She

and got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a

legs are dangling down from his lap.

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit about me.

have this idea that I can’t

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

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

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks

While drinking, I told her of my plans,

to know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and

he is in the same room or paying me attention.

this unwelcome flip,

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me

mouth.

who are

but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie,

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

help but laugh. “What did you

in closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her

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

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

is beating really fast.”

are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what