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,

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s

Kelly claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why

and

have

***

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

cuddling

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

He has

are dangling down from his

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

to have this idea that

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

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

it. So I wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks

told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not

he has

thickly. “Okay, here

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

in the same room or

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

in front of him. The

mouth.

who are you?”

at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

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

him like a

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

rude to you, so I

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

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

beating

anything. 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 don’t