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. “I

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s

claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes me. Unless Jake told

away all negative energy and jealousy and

have

***

I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly, Jake, and me—the single

not cuddling

her

and got a babysitter, so

Nathan. He has

dangling down from his

they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

seems to have this idea that

called a cab for her. That, my friend,

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on.

he has

“Okay,

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

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

stomach does this unwelcome flip,

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are

at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

know 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

around him like a monkey, she storms away.

help but laugh. “What did

to you, so I made sure to put her

I’m speechless. I didn’t

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

is beating really

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 to say or where to go,