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

sway, planting my hands on my hips. “Whi—Which one of

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

“The one in

better view but end

shake my

is waiting for you.”

are doing?” Hazel’s screechy voice makes me flinch

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

only ever shifted 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 fine

Alexander will do to you people

her. “One man

open my eyes: My blurry vision adjusts just enough

up, Ayla. Tell them you don’t want

try to find her but everything is blurry again. I can’t see anything clearly.

thoughts end when his hands touch my waist. Instantly, my mind goes on

“I mumble, getting dragged towards an

Ex

Our Boss

seal this deal.” The

tells me that I am

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

flight of stairs. Hazel continues to shout in

would I do

side by side as I am pushed inside some space. I

the red-themed room is cold. And

wrapping my arms around myself. ”

my arms. The touch makes me freeze. The

A man.

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Danger.

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