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 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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

the other woman’s attitude, before she

at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m here to have fun.

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

is cuddling with Nathan. He has called a cab

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

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

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

and once Jake is alone, Rebel

she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the guy needs to know

thickly. “Okay,

leave Logan and Rebel by the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster

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

of him.

are

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

There you are!”

The girl is shocked. And once I place

can’t help but laugh. “What did

to you, so I made sure to put her in

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

we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where