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.

who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds

and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t

I shake away all negative energy and

have fun.

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She

and got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has

dangling

doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit

to have this idea that I can’t hear

He called a cab for

perfect for me.

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

I wait. I

and have fun,

smirks at me.

my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the guy

know he

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do

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

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

front of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

who are you?”

her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

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

my legs around him like a monkey,

laugh. “What did you

rude to you, so I made

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

is beating really fast.”

as if my brain 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 go, and