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.

we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order some

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

her-I don’t know why

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have fun.

***

aren’t at the hotel anymore, but getting drunk at a bar. The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan,

not cuddling

drunk out of her

a babysitter,

Nathan. He has

her legs are dangling

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

to have this idea

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

I

have fun, and

Rebel smirks

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

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. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I

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

stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are

beats me to it

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

was rude to you, so I made

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

a smug face as I stare at him.

is beating really fast.”

say 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 know what to say or where to go, and