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.

met before, says in a rather bitchy

drinks.”

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

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

all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

to have

***

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

cuddling

her mind. She is

got a babysitter, so she is

has called a cab

are dangling

the bar. And Kelly? She

have this idea that I

called

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with Rebel and

and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

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

he has

“Okay,

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…

same room or paying

this unwelcome flip, and by some

forward.

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!”

while the girl stares

him like a monkey, she storms away.

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for,

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

thudding in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake

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

beating

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