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.

finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

the other woman’s

me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus

to have

***

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

cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind. She is

got a babysitter, so

has called

her legs are dangling down from his

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

to have this idea

her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order

have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster

my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention.

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are you?”

arch an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl

my legs around him like

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

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

speechless.

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

is beating

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