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.

with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says in a

drinks.”

other woman’s attitude,

at her-I

shake away all negative energy and jealousy and focus on

have

***

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

not cuddling

her mind. She is

pregnant and got a babysitter, so she is

has called a

her legs are dangling down from his

And Kelly? She is

this idea that

currently busy ignoring her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

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

wait. I order shots with Rebel

have fun, and

Rebel smirks at

back. While drinking, I told her of my plans, and now even Logan is cheering me

know he has

swallow thickly. “Okay, here

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

he is in the same room or paying me attention. I’m

does this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I steer

forward.

front of him. The girl

mouth.

are you?”

beats me to it by saying,

There you are!”

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

and wrap my legs around him like a monkey, she

can’t help but laugh. “What did you do that for, you dork?!”

all soft. “She was rude to you, so

speechless.

he makes a smug face as I stare at him. Eyebrows

is beating really fast.”

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. I don’t know what to say or where to