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.”

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

sway, planting my hands on my hips.

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

wants to marry you. “The one in front with

squint my eyes to get a better view but end up only hurting

want to sit down and shake my head a few times

is waiting for you.” They

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

wince, closing my eyes. Now, it

slow because I have 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

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

“One man commands the

cheeks and open my eyes: My blurry vision adjusts just enough

Tell them you don’t want to go with

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

his hands touch my waist. Instantly, my

mumble, getting dragged towards an unknown

Ex

Alvarez. Our Boss has accepted your proposal.

seal this deal.” The

I am

single breath of freedom is

of stairs. Hazel continues to shout in the background, telling me to do something

would

space. I hear a door

the red-themed room is cold. And the presence behind me is

arms around myself.

touch makes me freeze. The roughness

A man.

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Danger.

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