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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

way, I shake away all negative energy and

to have

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

not cuddling

out of her mind. She is finally

a babysitter, so she is

has called a

are dangling down from his

by the bar. And Kelly?

seems to have this idea that I

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

perfect for me.

said Jake and Kelly weren’t

I wait. I order shots with Rebel

fun, and once Jake

smirks at me.

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans,

know he has options.”

“Okay, here

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though

he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy,

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

are

Jake beats me to it

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl

legs around him like a monkey,

“What did you do that for,

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

I’m speechless. I

a smug face as I stare at him.

is beating really

brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I