The Girl He Craves

Chapter 35

Aiden’s pov

Something was very familiar with this woman. The way her bottom was shaped. The way she stood.

I stumbled out of the elevator when a thought slammed into my head.

No, it can’t be her.

What would Sophie Bell be doing in New York? Especially at Harrington.co?

She was probably sitting in her dorm room in college, talking to her roommate about weird shit.

This woman wasn’t Sophie. She couldn’t possibly be her.

Besides Sophie had brown chocolate hair and she had less hips. Though those legs were long just like hers…..

I shake my head while watching the woman enter the elevator. When the doors close behind her, I’m convinced that I was going mad.

Was I still so obsessed with Sophie that I was now thinking a stranger was her?

| grunt and decided to forget about this mysterious woman. She was no one, she was not Sophie. And if she was, I wouldn’t care anyway.

Sophie Bell has been dead to me for three years.

I stormed my to Bernard’s office, frustrated that I even thought this woman was Sophie.

“Mr. Xavier,” Bernard’s secretary, Alice rose from her seat. She looks shocked to see me, or perhaps it was the invisible steam coming out of my ears that had her so stunned.

I ignored her and went straight for Bernard’s office without knocking.

As soon as I enter. I’m hit with a familiar scent. It was a floral scent, but the scent was very faint. It reminded me of…..her.

What. The. Fuck.

I shook my head. I was really going mad today.

Bernard lifts his head from the mess of paperwork on his desk. He raised a brow. Of all my employees, Bernard was the only one who didn’t cower under my cold stare. I could give the old man props for that.

“Aiden

I glared at him and he stops. He knows how much I hate when he calls me by my given name. That name was only supposed to slip past the lips of those close to me.

Not because Bernard has been working for Harrington.co and was a trusted employee as

Sergio has mentioned, meant we were close.

“Mr. Xavier. What do I owe the pleasure

” Here are the reports I want you to look into.” I slam the file on his desk, frustrated that the light floral scent was still troubling my nose.

“Mr. Xavier

“Have them done by tomorrow.” Usually, I would have a more than five minute talk with him about the finances concerning the company, but I found myself itching to get out of the room and away from that scent.

I stormed out of his office.

“Mr. Xavier,” Alice nods when I stormed by. I don’t acknowledge her, needing to get out of where quickly

When I entered the elevator and pushed in my floor number, 38, I sighed in relief.

LE

As soon as the doors slide back close, I could finally breathe. But the frustration was still there.

Sophie Bell.

It was clear she was still haunting my mind to this day.

Igroaned. I slept with so many willing women to forget about her and it takes one mysteri ous woman that reminded me of her to have my entire composure crumbling at my feet.

I felt like that same high school boy who was so obsessed and in love with her that I’d do anything.

I was no longer that boy. I refuse to be that ‘boy’ again.

mind. No matter how long and how many

was sure Sophie Bell

call me when I was

into my head. I didn’t want to think about her any longer. Didn’t even want to care

elevator dings open and I

is seated at her desk, her red lipstick is one of

finally put her

gaze sweeps up quickly and her eyes hold that glint of desire in

walked away. She’s quick to stand up and follow behind me like a

on her knees for

Bernard’s pov

the door Aiden had just stormed out of in confusion. He sure looked flustered and a

“Saw Mr. Xavier

file he placed on the desk. “Not that I know of. He looked already pissed off

shrugged. “Honestly it’s the blue-eyed devil we’re talking about. It doesn’t take much

Mr. Xavier is always pissed

right about Sophie. She’s very hardworking and can grasp anything quickly. She’s the right

job. Alice utta

lot. Almost the exact replica. They could even be mis

looked down at the photo frame on my desk, almost buried by the amount of paperwork

took that photo at a resort, not knowing that it would be the last time our

was five

with my daughter. It was like I was staring at my daughter again, and seeing her

then, Sophie had become someone I held dear even though the girl wasn’t my

doesn’t she? The

your long-lost daughter you never knew about. Or at least a relative.” Alice voiced

Alice. I had only one biological daughter. And even conceiving her with my wife was hard. I wasn’t a man who spread my seed

squealed lowly as I pushed

around

that I found it in five min utes. But maybe that was because I asked for directions from the

stuffed my foam container with endless desserts knowing I’d have to share with Mila and

really start

bottom lip

all

the pleasant aroma and even more

refuse to

table and chair, smiling awkwardly when some work ers who were eating around a circular table turned to

was a new face

wasn’t the little flyaway

something

at the endless sweets

my gaze away

earlier before entering the elevator.

my skin quickly when that

reacted to one

person was

I was stupid to even think

jail

Sophie’s pov

of the day Sophie!” Alice said and waved at me before putting her hands out for a

too Alice!” I called out just as

col or that stood out. I had been meaning to give it a good paint job but

just say screw it and buy a new car that wouldn’t stop on me or refuse to start. And keep me hostage with its

Hell, I was starting to see through those

of you.” My hand patted the mustard color

a little droplet on my cheek, I lift my head to the sky. I closed my eyes and smiled as the rain belt over me. I even removed that tight

in the

.

were showering me

my white blouse was getting a bit see through. There was no way I’d have anyone

the screech, I

Harrington.co.

help

I’d ever be one of the employees working

you in on a

paying job like this. Not when I didn’t have the qualifica tions for it or anything close to