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.

so can we move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

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

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

way, I shake away all negative energy and

to have fun.

***

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

not cuddling

of her mind. She is finally

and got a babysitter, so she is

Nathan. He has called a cab

dangling down

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

idea that I can’t

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

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly

I wait. I order shots with Rebel

have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

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

he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here goes…

the bar. Jake is talking to some

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

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

forward.

front of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

but Jake beats me to

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

and wrap my legs around him like a

help but laugh. “What did

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

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

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

beating really

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