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 in black fitted

on my hips. “Whi—Which

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

one in front with blurry jet-black

to get a better view but end

down and shake my head a few times to grasp my

waiting for you.”

Hazel’s screechy voice

I wince, closing my eyes. Now, it will hurt for

times in 1 year. Mom says she was like this in the start, but she got a rare white

you people if he gets to know you tried to take his drunk daughter. “Hazel

her. “One man commands the

My blurry vision adjusts just enough to let me see

you don’t want to go with them.” Hazel

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

hands touch my waist. Instantly, my mind goes on

– -Where— “I mumble, getting dragged towards an

Ex

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

him to seal this deal.”

that I

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

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

would I

grin, swaying side by side as I am pushed inside some space. I hear a door click shut,

red-themed room is cold. And the presence

wrapping my arms around

freeze.

A man.

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Danger.

open as he runs his hands down my arms, reaching for the back