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.”

parts, and two men, dressed in black fitted

hands on my hips. “Whi—Which

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

to marry you. “The one in

better view but end up only hurting my

want to sit down and shake my

is waiting for

think you are doing?” Hazel’s screechy voice makes

land on my butt, pain shooting throughout my tailbone. I wince, closing my eyes. Now, it will hurt for a

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

about taking advantage. You don’t know what Alpha Alexander will do to you people if he gets

“One man

vision adjusts just enough to let

up, Ayla. Tell them you don’t want

again. I can’t see anything clearly.

end when his hands touch my waist. Instantly, my mind

-Where— “I mumble, getting dragged towards an

Ex

Ms. Alvarez. Our Boss has accepted your

seal

me that I am not doing

for a single breath of freedom is profound. The

a flight of stairs. Hazel continues to shout

why would I do

I am pushed inside some space. I hear a door click shut, and

red-themed room is cold. And

arms around myself.

my arms. The touch makes me freeze. The roughness and size of his hands prove that he is a

A man.

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Danger.

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