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.

you’re finally here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

blinks in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she

her-I don’t know

away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

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

cuddling with anyone.

out of her mind. She is finally

and got a

with Nathan. He has called a

and her legs are dangling down from his lap.

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

idea that

ignoring her. He called a

perfect for me.

confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t

wait. I order shots with

laugh, and have fun,

Rebel smirks at

my plans, and now even

he has options.”

swallow thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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, I can!

in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

who are

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

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey,

help but laugh. “What did you do

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

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

and he makes a smug face as I stare at

is beating really fast.”

realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on