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.

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

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before she

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have fun.

***

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

cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind.

a babysitter, so

with Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit

idea that I

called a cab for her. That,

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive

I wait. I order shots

and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at

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

to know he has

thickly. “Okay, here

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

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

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are

but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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

him like a monkey,

did you do that

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

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

is beating really fast.”

practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where