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

“I don’t date nice guys, and then I

met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us to order some

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told

negative energy and jealousy and

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I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly,

is cuddling with Nathan. He has called a cab already, and her legs are dangling

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

that I can’t hear her. Jake is currently busy ignoring her.

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

have fun, and once Jake is alone,

now even Logan is

“Okay,

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

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 when he looks up and tilts his head, smiling, I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

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

who are

me to

There you are!”

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

but laugh. “What did you do that

soft. “She was rude to you, so

and he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your heart is

on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I