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

sway, planting my hands on my

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

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

squint my eyes to get a better view but end up only hurting

want to sit down and shake my head

is waiting for you.” They

Hazel’s screechy voice makes me

my tailbone. I wince, closing my eyes. Now, it will

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 became

will do to you people if he gets to know you tried to take his drunk daughter. “Hazel is rambling on and

“One man commands

and open my eyes: My blurry vision adjusts just enough to let me see the man who is approaching

you don’t want to go with them.”

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

waist. Instantly, my mind goes on

“I mumble, getting

Ex

marry you, Ms. Alvarez. Our

to seal

that I

of freedom is profound. The desire to ruin my

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

why would I do

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

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

shiver, wrapping my arms around myself. ” M—Marry—Do

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

A man.

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Danger.

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