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.

who I’ve never met before, says in a rather

drinks.”

in surprise, seemingly confused by the other woman’s attitude,

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

I shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

to have fun.

***

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

not cuddling with anyone.

her mind. She is finally

a babysitter, so

has

her legs are dangling down from his

bar. And Kelly? She is

to have this idea

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

perfect for me.

will confess my feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I will take his word

wait. I

have fun, and

smirks

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

he

thickly. “Okay, here

bar. Jake is talking to some girl, and my heart pounds faster and faster. Can I do this? Yes. Yes,

has this presence now. It feels like my blood is boiling when he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m already dizzy, and when he

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

him.

mouth.

are you?”

an eyebrow at her, but Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

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

wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

help but laugh. “What did you

“She was rude to you, so I

speeds up. I’m speechless. I

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

is beating really

don’t say 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 locked onto his face.