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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

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

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

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

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

not cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter, so she is

He has

legs are dangling down from his lap.

bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

have this idea

He called

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I

wait. I order shots with

have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at

get him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

to know he has

“Okay, here

the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to

blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his

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

forward.

in front of him.

mouth.

are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on

him like a monkey, she storms

did you do that

soft. “She was rude to you, so I made sure to put her in place.”

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

beating really fast.”

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t