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.”

parts, and two men, dressed

hands on my hips.

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

one

a better view but end up

want to sit down and shake my head a few times to grasp my hold on

for you.”

you are doing?” Hazel’s screechy voice makes me flinch

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

slow because I have only ever shifted three times in 1 year. Mom says she was like this in the start, but she got a rare white wolf, like mine and it

you people if he gets to know you tried to

“One man commands

adjusts just enough to let me see the man

Sober the f**k up, Ayla. Tell them you don’t want

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

end when his hands touch my waist. Instantly, my mind goes on high alert but my

“I mumble, getting dragged towards an unknown

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marry you, Ms. Alvarez. Our Boss has accepted your proposal.

to him to seal this deal.”

that I

is bigger. The need for a single breath of freedom is profound. The desire to ruin my

am hauled up a flight of stairs. Hazel continues to shout in the background, telling me

would I do

some space. I hear a door click shut, and try to adjust my vision

room is cold. And

arms around myself.

cold hands touch my arms. The touch makes me freeze. The roughness and size of his hands prove that he

A man.

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Danger.

the back of my palms. Electricity runs down the path of his fingers, shutting my