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.

with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

by the other woman’s attitude,

shrug at her-I don’t know why Kelly

and jealousy and focus on my

have

***

I don’t know well aren’t with us. It’s Nathan,

not cuddling with

out of her mind. She

and got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has

are dangling down

and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly?

idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

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

So I wait. I order

have fun,

Rebel smirks at

get him,” she pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell him how you feel. It’s not wrong-the

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay,

set the course for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to

when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he looks up and tilts his

almost bail. My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

of him. The girl scowls

mouth.

are

her, but Jake beats me to it by

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey, she storms

did you do that for, you dork?!”

to you, so

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

as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really

embarrassed. 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 his face. I don’t know what