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.

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

drinks.”

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

I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and

to have fun.

***

aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t

not cuddling

is drunk out of her mind.

got a babysitter,

has

dangling down from his

for Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She

idea

He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order shots with

fun, and once

Rebel smirks

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you

know he has

thickly. “Okay,

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

It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

standing in front of him.

mouth.

who are

at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl stares

around him like a monkey, she storms

did you do that for, you dork?!”

rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

beating really

my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s