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.”

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

planting my hands on my hips. “Whi—Which

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

Boss wants to marry you. “The one in front with blurry

squint my eyes to get a better

down and shake my head a few times

waiting for you.” They

you think you are doing?” Hazel’s

I wince, closing my

Mom says she was like

her alone. Don’t even think 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

“One man commands

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

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

find her but everything is blurry again. I can’t see anything clearly. People’s faces are zooming in and out

my waist. Instantly, my mind goes

– -Where— “I mumble, getting dragged towards an

Ex

Alvarez. Our

seal this

tells me that I

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

flight of stairs. Hazel continues to shout in

would I do

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

air inside the red-themed room is cold. And the presence behind

shiver, wrapping my arms around myself. ”

touch makes me freeze. The

A man.

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Danger.

he runs his hands down my arms, reaching for the back of my palms. Electricity runs down the path of his fingers, shutting my