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.

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

drinks.”

seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy

have

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guys I don’t know well aren’t with

cuddling with

drunk out of her mind. She

got a babysitter, so she

has called

her legs are dangling down from

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and

seems to have this idea

called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

I wait. I order shots with

and have fun, and once Jake

smirks at

I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is

know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s

boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are you?”

me

There you are!”

it, 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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

did you do that

voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

I stare at him.

is 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