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.”

two men, dressed in black fitted

sway, planting my hands on my hips. “Whi—Which

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

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

get a better view but end

anymore. I want to sit down and shake my head

for you.”

you are doing?” Hazel’s screechy voice makes

throughout my tailbone. I wince,

healing is 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

what Alpha Alexander will do to you people if he gets to know you tried to take his drunk daughter. “Hazel

“One man

adjusts

them you

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

my mind goes on high alert but my

mumble, getting dragged towards an unknown

Ex

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

seal this deal.” The man

me that I am not doing

bigger. The need for a single breath of freedom is

flight of stairs. Hazel continues to shout

why would I do

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

inside the red-themed room is cold. And the presence behind me is

arms around myself. ” M—Marry—Do you

arms. The touch makes me freeze. The roughness and size

A man.

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Danger.

arms, reaching for the back of my palms. Electricity runs down the path of