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

my hands on my hips.

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

you. “The one in front with

squint my eyes to get a better view but

and shake

waiting for you.” They

do you think you are doing?” Hazel’s

shooting throughout my tailbone. I wince, closing

shifted three times in 1 year. Mom says she was like this in the start, but she got

You don’t know what Alpha Alexander will do to you people if he gets to know you tried to take his drunk daughter. “Hazel is rambling

“One man commands

flushed cheeks and open my eyes: My blurry vision adjusts just enough to let me see the man

f**k up, Ayla. Tell them you don’t

can’t see anything clearly. People’s faces are zooming

his hands touch my waist. Instantly, my mind goes on

– -Where— “I mumble, getting dragged towards

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

you to him to seal this deal.” The man

me that I

a single breath of freedom is

continues to shout in the background, telling me to do something or to

why would

pushed inside some space. I hear a door click shut, and try to adjust

is cold. And the presence

arms around myself.

makes me freeze. The roughness and size of

A man.

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Danger.

reaching for the back of my palms. Electricity