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.”

crowd parts, and two men, dressed in black fitted suits

hands on my hips. “Whi—Which one of

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

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

squint my eyes to get a better

anymore. I want to sit down and shake my head

for

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

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

year. Mom says she was like this in the start, but she got a rare white wolf, like mine and

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

“One man commands the

My blurry vision adjusts just enough to let me see the man who is

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

everything is blurry again. I can’t see anything clearly. People’s faces are zooming

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

-Where— “I mumble, getting dragged

Ex

Alvarez. Our Boss

to him to seal this

that I

The need for a single breath of freedom is profound. The desire to ruin my life runs deep in my

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

would

inside some space. I hear

is cold. And the presence behind me is

shiver, wrapping my arms around myself.

hands touch my arms. The touch makes me freeze. The

A man.

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Danger.

arms, reaching for the back of