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.”

and two men, dressed in black fitted suits come marching towards

planting my hands on my hips. “Whi—Which

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

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

get a better view but end up only hurting my

anymore. I want to sit down and shake my head

waiting for you.”

Hazel’s screechy voice makes me flinch and

pain shooting throughout my tailbone. I wince,

because I have only ever shifted three times in 1 year. Mom says she was like this in the start, but

about taking advantage. 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

“One man commands the

pat my flushed cheeks and open my eyes: My blurry vision adjusts

Tell them you don’t want to go with them.” Hazel

see anything clearly. People’s faces are zooming in

my mind goes on high alert but my limbs are

getting dragged towards an

Ex

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

him to seal this deal.”

tells me that I am not

bigger. The need for a single breath of freedom is profound. The desire to ruin my

Hazel continues to shout in the background,

would

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

is cold. And the presence behind me

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

freeze. The roughness and size of his hands prove

A man.

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Danger.

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