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.

I’ve never met before, says in

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly dislikes

way, I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have fun.

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guys I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan, Alice, Logan, Rebel, Kelly,

cuddling

her mind. She

and got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called a

her legs are dangling down

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

to have this idea that I can’t

busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her. That, my friend, is

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order shots with Rebel

and have fun, and

Rebel smirks at

drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering

to know he

swallow thickly. “Okay,

to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster.

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

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

forward.

him. The

mouth.

are

eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me

There you are!”

and lifted up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my

him like

but laugh. “What did

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

in my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do

I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a

is beating

now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t