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.

on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she

at her-I

shake away all negative energy and jealousy

to have

***

The hockey guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl who feels

cuddling

out of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter,

has

dangling down from his lap.

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

seems to have this idea that

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

perfect for me.

said Jake

So I wait. I

fun,

smirks at me.

her of my plans, and now

to know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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.

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 tilts

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and opens

mouth.

who are you?”

beats me to

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on

my legs around him

did

“She was rude to you, so I made sure

speeds up. I’m speechless. I

a smug face as I stare

is beating

are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad