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

drinks.”

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

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have

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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 girl who

not cuddling

her mind. She

a babysitter,

has called a

are dangling down from

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk,

idea that I can’t hear

Jake is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

he

thickly. “Okay, here

leave Logan and 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

boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

I almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

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

mouth.

who are you?”

but Jake beats me

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him

help but laugh. “What did

“She was rude to you, so I made sure to

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless.

face as I stare at him.

beating really

brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad