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.”

two men, dressed in

hands on my hips. “Whi—Which

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

Boss wants to marry you. “The one in

get a better view but

straight anymore. I want to sit down and shake my head a few times to grasp my hold on

is waiting for you.”

Hazel’s screechy voice makes

throughout my tailbone. I wince, closing

1 year. Mom says she was like this in

her alone. 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 daughter. “Hazel is

her. “One man

adjusts just enough to let me see

them you don’t want to go

see anything clearly. People’s

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

“I mumble, getting dragged towards an

Ex

Ms. Alvarez. Our Boss has accepted

seal this deal.” The man

me that I am not doing

for a single breath of freedom is profound. The desire

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

why would I

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

is cold. And the presence behind

shiver, wrapping my arms around myself.

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

A man.

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Danger.

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