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.

move on with the celebrations?” Kelly, who I’ve never met before, says

drinks.”

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

questioningly. I shrug at her-I don’t know

and jealousy and focus on my

to have fun.

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guys I don’t know

cuddling with

drunk out of her mind.

pregnant and got a babysitter,

Nathan. He has called

her legs are dangling down from

Rebel and Logan, they are doing shots. by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

this idea

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

perfect for me.

feelings. Mark said Jake and Kelly weren’t exclusive or serious, and I

it. So I wait. I order shots

laugh, and have fun, and once Jake is

smirks

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

he

“Okay, here

the corner of the bar. Jake is talking to some

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

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

forward.

I feel so awkward standing in front of him. The girl scowls at

mouth.

who are you?”

Jake beats me to it by saying, “Winnie, my best friend!

There you are!”

up from the ground while the girl stares at us. I’m shocked. The girl is shocked. And once I

legs around him like a monkey, she

“What did you do that for, you

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

my chest speeds up. I’m speechless. I didn’t

as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted, and

is beating really fast.”

are practically hugging. My hands are on Jake’s broad shoulders, eyes locked onto his face.