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.

never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone.

drinks.”

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

at her-I don’t

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

***

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,

cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind. She

a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called a cab

and her legs are dangling down from

for Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

have this idea that I can’t hear

ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly

So I wait. I order shots with

laugh, and have fun, and

smirks at me.

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him

know he has

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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 can! Even though

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

him.

mouth.

are

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

know it, I’m 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

around him

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for,

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

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

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

beating really fast.”

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