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

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of

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

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

have

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

cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so

has called

her legs are dangling down from his

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

seems to have this idea that

He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots with

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at

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

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me

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

forward.

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

mouth.

are you?”

me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once

around him like a monkey,

but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

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

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

face as I stare at him.

beating really fast.”

just 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