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.

I’ve never met before, says in a rather bitchy tone. “I would like for us

drinks.”

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

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

negative energy and jealousy and focus on my friends.

have

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

not cuddling with anyone.

is drunk out of her mind. She is

a

He has called a

dangling down from his lap.

by the bar. And Kelly? She is drunk, clinging to

seems to have this idea that

her. He called a cab for her.

perfect for me.

Jake and Kelly weren’t

So I wait. I

laugh, and have fun, and once

Rebel smirks at me.

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

know he has options.”

thickly. “Okay, here

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

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 looks up

this unwelcome flip, and by some miracle, I

forward.

him. The girl scowls at me and opens her

mouth.

who are you?”

but Jake beats me to

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 shocked. And

legs around him like

but laugh. “What did you do that for, you

rude to you, so I made sure

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

face as I stare at him. Eyebrows lifted,

beating really

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