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

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy

to have

***

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

not cuddling

of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called

are dangling down from his lap.

by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm

seems to have this idea that I

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

I order

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks

of my plans,

to know he

“Okay, here

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s scary…

in the same

does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

him. The

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

I know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on Jake’s

my legs around him like a

laugh. “What did you do

voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin.

is beating really

we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his