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.”

dressed in black fitted suits come marching

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

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

to marry you. “The one in front with

I squint my eyes to get a better view but end

can’t stand straight anymore. I want to sit down and shake my head a few times to grasp

for

you think you are doing?” Hazel’s

tailbone. I wince, closing my eyes. Now, it will hurt for

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

Alpha Alexander will do to you people if he gets to know you tried to take his drunk daughter. “Hazel

her. “One man commands the

open my eyes: My blurry vision adjusts just enough to let me see the man who

the f**k up, Ayla. Tell them you don’t want

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

my mind goes on high alert but

getting dragged towards an unknown

Ex

marry you, Ms. Alvarez. Our Boss has

you to him to seal this deal.” The

that I am not doing

single breath of freedom is profound. The desire to

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

why would

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

room is cold. And the presence

shiver, wrapping my arms around myself. ” M—Marry—Do

touch 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.

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