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.

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone.

drinks.”

surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before

at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told her about me

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my

have

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I don’t know well aren’t

not cuddling with

her mind. She is

and got a babysitter, so she is

He has called a cab

dangling

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t hear

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun, and once

smirks

him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans,

he has options.”

thickly. “Okay,

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

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle,

forward.

feel so awkward standing in front of him. The

mouth.

are you?”

Jake beats me to

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on Jake’s

legs around him like a monkey,

but laugh. “What did you do

rude to

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

stare at him.

beating really

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