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

drinks.”

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

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends. I’m

have

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guys I don’t know well

cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She

and got a babysitter,

with Nathan. He has called a

her legs are dangling down from his lap.

by the bar. And Kelly? She is

idea that I can’t hear

busy ignoring her. He called a cab

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or

I wait. I order shots

have fun,

Rebel smirks at

her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

bar and set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes,

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

does this unwelcome

forward.

in front of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

know it, I’m squeezed into a hug and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The

around him like a monkey, she storms away.

laugh. “What did you do

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

I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to

and he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

is beating

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