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.

met before, says in

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude, before she finds words. “Uh,

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

away all negative energy and jealousy and

to have fun.

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I don’t know well aren’t

cuddling with

out of her mind. She is finally

got a babysitter, so she

Nathan. He has called a

legs are dangling down from his

are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to Jake’s forearm and talking shit

have this idea

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

perfect for me.

soon as Kelly is gone, I will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or

wait. I order shots with

have fun, and once Jake is

Rebel smirks at me.

pushes the small of my back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now

know he has

thickly. “Okay, here

for the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster

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

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

forward.

of him. The girl scowls at me and

mouth.

are

Jake beats me

There you are!”

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

legs around him like

but laugh. “What did you

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

speechless. I didn’t expect Jake to do that for

face as I stare at him.

is beating really

anything. I’m embarrassed. It’s as if my brain just now realizes that we are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes