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.

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

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

and jealousy and focus on

to have fun.

***

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

cuddling with

her mind.

and got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called a cab

legs are dangling down from his

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t hear

called

perfect for me.

Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I

So I wait. I order shots

have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the guy

to know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And

around him like a monkey,

“What did you

all soft. “She was rude to you, so

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

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

beating really

hands are on Jake’s broad