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.

celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met

drinks.”

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

hands, and Alice looks at me questioningly. I shrug at her-I

energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

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

not cuddling with

is drunk out of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter,

He has called

her legs are dangling down from

And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s

to have this idea

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

perfect for me.

I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and

it. So I wait. I order shots with

and have fun, and once Jake

Rebel smirks at

of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me on. “Tell

know he has

“Okay,

talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes, I can! Even though it’s scary…

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

My stomach does this unwelcome flip, and by

forward.

of him. The girl

mouth.

are

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to

There you are!”

girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I place my hands on Jake’s

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she storms away.

can’t help but laugh. “What did you

voice all soft. “She was rude to you, so I made

up. I’m speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that

smug face as I stare at

beating really

My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face. I don’t know what to say or where to go, and