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.”

men, dressed in black fitted suits

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

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

you. “The one in front

better view but end up only hurting my

stand straight anymore. I want to sit down and shake my head a few times

waiting for you.” They

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

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

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

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

man commands

flushed cheeks and open my eyes: My blurry vision adjusts just enough to let me see the

f**k up, Ayla. Tell them you don’t

my drowsy 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 find myself so close to

end when his hands touch my waist. Instantly, my mind goes on high alert but my limbs

-Where— “I mumble, getting dragged towards an

Ex

Our Boss has accepted your proposal.

to him to seal this

tells me that I am not doing

the anger is bigger. The need for a single breath of freedom is profound. The desire to ruin my

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

why would

swaying side by side as I am pushed inside some space. I

cold. And the presence behind me

wrapping my arms around myself. ” M—Marry—Do you

me freeze. The roughness and size

A man.

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Danger.

reaching for the back of my palms. Electricity runs down the path of