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.

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

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before

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

energy and jealousy and focus

have fun.

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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 single

cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm

to have this idea

busy ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I order

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at

plans, and now

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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. Can I do this? Yes.

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

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

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in

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

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

beating really

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