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 come marching towards

my hands on

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

wants to marry you. “The one

I squint my eyes to get a better

sit down and shake my head a few times

waiting for you.” They

do you think you are doing?” Hazel’s screechy

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

year. Mom says she was like this in the start, but she got a rare

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

blurry vision adjusts just enough to let

Tell them you don’t want

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

Instantly, my mind goes

“I mumble, getting dragged towards an unknown

Ex

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

to seal this

that I am

breath of freedom is profound. The desire to ruin my life

Hazel continues to shout in the

why would

am pushed inside some space. I hear

is cold.

wrapping my arms around myself.

touch makes me freeze. The roughness and

A man.

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Danger.

runs his hands down my arms, reaching for the back of my

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