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

planting my hands on my hips. “Whi—Which

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

Boss wants to marry you. “The one in front

eyes to get a better view but end up only hurting

anymore. I want to sit down and shake my head a

waiting for

Hazel’s screechy voice

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

only ever shifted three times in 1 year. Mom says she was like this

Alexander will do to you people if he gets to know you tried

“One man commands

blurry vision adjusts just enough to let me see the

Tell them you don’t want to go with them.” Hazel

see anything clearly. People’s faces are zooming in and out as I

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

getting

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someone to marry you, Ms. Alvarez. Our Boss has accepted your

to him to seal this deal.” The

I am

need for a single breath of freedom is profound. The desire to

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

would

some space. I hear a door click shut, and try to adjust my

room is cold. And the

shiver, wrapping my arms around

cold hands touch 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.

mouth hangs open as he runs his hands down my arms, reaching for the back of my