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.

finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

questioningly. I shrug at her-I

negative energy and jealousy

have

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

not cuddling with

of her mind. She is finally

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

with Nathan. He has

dangling down

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

seems to have this idea that

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I

have fun, and once Jake is

smirks

plans, and now even Logan is cheering

he has

“Okay, here

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. Yes, I can! Even though it’s scary…

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy,

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

forward.

standing in front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are

her, but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The

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

laugh. “What did you

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

I’m speechless.

stare

is beating really fast.”

It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders,