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

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

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

my eyes to get a better view but end up only

can’t stand straight anymore. I want to sit down and shake my

waiting for

Hazel’s screechy voice makes me flinch and fall

land on my butt, pain shooting throughout my tailbone. I wince, closing my eyes.

shifted three times in 1 year. Mom says she was like this in the

Alpha Alexander will do to you people

her. “One man commands

my eyes: My blurry vision adjusts just enough to let

Ayla. Tell them you

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

waist. Instantly, my mind goes on high alert but my limbs

getting dragged towards

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

to seal this deal.” The

tells me that I am

the anger is bigger. The need for a single breath of freedom is profound. The

continues to shout in

would

I am pushed inside some space. I hear a door

room is cold. And the presence

around myself. ”

touch makes me freeze. The roughness and size of his hands prove

A man.

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Danger.

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