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 before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like

drinks.”

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

her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

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

have

***

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

cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is

and got a babysitter, so she is

has called a cab

are dangling down from his lap.

Kelly? She is

have this idea that

her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or

I order shots

have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at

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

know he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s

this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room

stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

who are

Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

rude to you, so I made

speeds up. I’m speechless. I

and he makes a smug face as I stare at

is beating really fast.”

if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face.