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.

never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh, of course?”

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

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

to have fun.

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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 who

cuddling with anyone.

drunk out of her

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she

has called a cab

are dangling down from his lap.

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

to have this idea that

is currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

it. So I wait. I order shots

and have fun, and

smirks

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

he has options.”

“Okay,

set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my

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

bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

awkward standing in front of him.

mouth.

are

her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

I know it, 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.

him like a monkey,

but laugh. “What did

rude to you, so I

speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect

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

beating really

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