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.

met

drinks.”

woman’s attitude, before she

shrug at her-I

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have fun.

***

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

cuddling

her mind. She

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

with Nathan. He has called a cab

legs are dangling down from his lap.

by the bar. And Kelly? She is

have this idea that I can’t

called

perfect for me.

as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

have fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

I told her of my plans, and now

know he has

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster

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

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

are

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him

“What did you

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

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

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

beating really fast.”

embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,