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.

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

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words.

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have

***

I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan,

cuddling with

of her mind. She

got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has

legs are dangling down

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

have this idea that I can’t hear

He called a cab for

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

have fun, and

Rebel smirks at me.

my plans, and now even

to know he has

“Okay,

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

when he is in the same room or

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

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

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

around him like a

help but laugh. “What did you

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

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

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

beating really fast.”

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