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

nice guys, and then I went here with Mark. He must have been so confused,

I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy

seemingly confused by the other woman’s

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

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

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well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single girl who feels awkward not

is finally not pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is cuddling with Nathan.

Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

have this idea that I can’t hear her. Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He

gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word for it. So I wait. I order shots with

fun, and once Jake is alone, Rebel smirks

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

“Okay,

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 and faster.

I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls

are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

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 place my hands on Jake’s shoulders and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

laugh. “What did

rude to you, so

for me, and he makes a smug face as I stare

don’t say anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his