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.

here, so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says

drinks.”

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

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

away all negative energy and jealousy

to have fun.

***

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

not cuddling

drunk out of her

and got a babysitter, so

has called

her legs are dangling down from

the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging

have this idea that I can’t hear

her. He called a cab for her. That, my

perfect for me.

as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake

it. So I wait. I order

and have fun, and once

smirks at me.

of my plans,

to know he has

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

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

my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and

does this unwelcome flip, and

forward.

so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are

but Jake beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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

legs around him like a monkey,

laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

closer, voice all soft. “She was rude to you,

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

a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and a huge grin. “Your

is beating really fast.”

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what