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.

met before, says in a rather bitchy

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude,

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

energy and jealousy

to have

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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

not cuddling

her mind.

a babysitter, so

Nathan. He has called

legs are dangling down from his lap.

shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

seems to have this idea

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

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

I order shots with Rebel and

have fun, and

smirks at me.

While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how

to know he has options.”

“Okay, here

the bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my

when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

of him.

mouth.

are you?”

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

There you are!”

squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is

legs around him

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

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so

speeds up. I’m speechless.

he makes a smug face as I stare at

beating really

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 face. I don’t know what to say or where to go,