Hiding the Alpha’s Baby

c Chapter 87

AYLA

I don’t know what I am saying. But my words have caused a heavy silence among people.

My mind spins. I grin, pointing towards a tall, blurry guy in the crowd.

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Will you—marry me? “I stutter, stumbling over my feet again.

It will destroy Mom and Dad’s plans for me if I can just change the course of my life by getting married to a man they don’t get to choose. The thought keeps hammering my hazy mind.

But whoever I point to, just runs away.

Who would dare to marry—Ayla Alvarez?

My lips pucker out. “1—I am not that bad. I just- -can’t let

any- -any man-

The words feel heavy on my tongue. I can’t let any man touch me. It’s like my fight-or-flight response activates as soon as a man gets close to me. I am either, inclined to hurt them or run away.

I chose to do the latter with Henry. Whenever he got close, I made an excuse and ran away.

But he figured out I was only running from him. And he pressured me more into getting intimate.

It made me sick.

Why am I only realizing it now?

He made me sick when he told me he wanted me in his bed without caring if it was alright with me.

But Dad and Mom shouldn’t have pushed him away. They had no

right.

“So—Someone, just— “Marry me.

Marry me and end this misery. Let me be free for once.

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Ms. Alvarez.”

blurry crowd parts, and two men, dressed

hands on my hips. “Whi—Which

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

marry you. “The one in front with blurry jet-black hair

better view

anymore. I want to sit down and shake my head

is waiting for you.” They

Hazel’s

my butt, pain shooting throughout my tailbone. I wince, closing my eyes. Now, it will hurt for a

because I have only ever shifted three times in 1 year. Mom says she was like this in the start, but she got

don’t know what Alpha Alexander will do to you people if he gets to know you tried to take his

her. “One man commands

blurry vision adjusts

Ayla. Tell them you

try to find her but everything is blurry again. I can’t see anything clearly. People’s faces are zooming in and out

my waist. Instantly, my mind goes on

getting dragged

Ex

Our Boss has accepted your proposal.

seal this deal.” The man

me that I

for a single breath of freedom is

flight of stairs. Hazel continues to shout in the background, telling me to do something or to

would I

inside some space.

cold. And the presence behind me

arms around myself. ”

The touch makes me freeze. The roughness and size of his hands prove that he is a

A man.

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Danger.

his hands down my arms, reaching for the back of