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.

finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met

drinks.”

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

looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why

way, I shake away all negative energy and

have fun.

***

few hours later, we 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, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and

cuddling

her

a babysitter, so she is

He has

and her legs are dangling down from

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

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

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

have fun,

smirks at

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

he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes.

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

unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

of him. The girl

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my

There you are!”

while the girl stares at

legs around him like

“What did you do

to you, so I made

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

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

beating really fast.”

hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face.