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.”

the blurry crowd parts, and two men, dressed in black fitted suits come marching

on my hips. “Whi—Which

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

to marry you. “The one in front with

better

sit down and shake my head a few times to grasp my hold

waiting for you.”

do you think you are doing?” Hazel’s screechy voice makes me flinch and fall

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

healing is slow because I have only ever shifted three times in 1 year. Mom says she was like this

don’t know what Alpha Alexander will do to you people if he gets to know you tried to take his

“One man

My blurry vision adjusts just

Sober the f**k up, Ayla. Tell them you

can’t see anything clearly. People’s faces are zooming in and out as

waist. Instantly, my mind goes on high alert but my limbs

“I mumble, getting dragged

Ex

wanted someone to marry you, Ms. Alvarez. Our

to seal this deal.” The

that I am not

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

am hauled up a flight of stairs. Hazel continues to shout in the background, telling me to do something or to

would I do

grin, swaying side by side as I am pushed inside some space. I hear

inside the red-themed room is cold.

around myself. ” M—Marry—Do you

hands touch my arms. The touch makes me freeze. The roughness and size of his hands

A man.

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Danger.

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