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 come

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

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

wants to marry you. “The one in front

better view but end up only hurting

and shake my

waiting for you.” They

doing?” Hazel’s screechy voice makes me flinch

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

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

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

“One man commands the

blurry vision adjusts

you don’t want to go with

again. I can’t see anything clearly. People’s faces

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

“I mumble, getting dragged towards an unknown

Ex

Ms. Alvarez. Our Boss has accepted

to him to seal this deal.” The man

me that I

freedom is profound. The desire

shout in the background, telling me to

why would I

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

is cold. And

my arms around myself. ”

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

A man.

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Danger.

arms, reaching for the back of