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

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

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

Boss wants to marry you. “The one in

better view but end up only hurting

and shake my head a few times to

is waiting for you.”

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

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

1 year. Mom says she was

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 rambling

man commands

eyes: My blurry vision adjusts just enough to let me see the man who is approaching

Sober the f**k up, Ayla. Tell them you don’t want to go with

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

my mind goes on high alert

getting dragged

Ex

Our Boss has accepted your proposal.

him to seal this deal.” The

that I am

single breath of freedom is profound. The desire to ruin my life runs deep in my

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

would I

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

is cold. And the presence behind

arms around myself.

me freeze. The roughness and size of his

A man.

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Danger.

arms, reaching for the back of