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

on my hips. “Whi—Which

wants

to-marriage–I mean marry

me?”

Boss wants to marry you. “The one in front with

eyes to get a better view but end up

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

waiting for

are doing?” Hazel’s screechy voice

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

she was like this in the start,

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

her. “One man commands

blurry vision adjusts just enough to let me see the

Ayla. Tell them you don’t want to go with

shake my drowsy head and try to find her but everything is blurry again. I can’t see anything clearly. People’s faces are zooming

touch my waist. Instantly, my mind goes on high

– -Where— “I mumble, getting dragged towards an unknown

Ex

marry you, Ms. Alvarez. Our Boss has

to seal this deal.” The man

that I am not

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

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

would

am pushed inside some space. I hear a

cold. And

arms around myself. ”

touch my arms. The touch makes me freeze. The roughness and size

A man.

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Danger.

his hands down my arms, reaching for the back