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.

the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before,

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

Kelly claps her hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have fun.

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guys I don’t know well aren’t with us.

not cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

He has called

are dangling down from his

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

seems to have this idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

wait. I order

and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and

know he

“Okay, here goes…

Jake is talking to some girl, and my

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

stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are

at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey, she storms

but laugh. “What did you

soft. “She was rude to

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

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

is beating really

my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his