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.

to force her out of my mind. No matter how long and how many women it would take to forget about

Sophie Bell

bothering to call me when I was locked up for an entire

the thought slammed into my head. I didn’t want to think about her

elevator dings open

at her desk, her red lipstick is one of the first things you’d notice

I’ll finally

up quickly and her

to stand up and follow behind

to get on her knees for

Bernard’s pov

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

Alice enters. “Saw Mr. Xavier storming

desk. “Not that I know of. He looked already pissed off the moment he entered.”

we’re talking about. It doesn’t

Xavier is always

you were right about Sophie. She’s very hardworking and can grasp anything quickly. She’s the right fit for the

job. Alice utta

also resembles your daughter a lot. Almost the exact replica. They could even be mis

frame on my desk, almost buried by the amount of paperwork

knowing that it would be the last time our daughter would be living and breathing. She was only seventeen then and had her whole life ahead

was five years

with my daughter. It

dear even though the girl wasn’t

“She does, doesn’t she?

if she actually was your long-lost daughter you never

ridiculous, Alice. I had only one biological daughter. And even conceiving her with my wife was hard. I wasn’t

those.” | squealed lowly as I pushed small chocolate

eyes dance around

say that I found it in five min utes. But maybe that was because I

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

really

tongue licks a trail on my bottom lip when my

they showcase all those unhealthy foods here? I

pleasant aroma and even more pleasant looking food. I

refuse to be

when some work ers

at me today? Sure I was a new face here, but was one look not

my head, hoping it wasn’t the little flyaway hairs pulling

have something on

maybe they saw me gawking at the

my gaze away from

stares didn’t trouble me like the one I felt on my back earlier before entering the elevator. No, that stare was different than these, I could feel

on my lips as I remembered how tingles brushed on my skin quickly

body ever only reacted

person was

inwardly. I was stupid to even think that stare

jail for

Sophie’s pov

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

too Alice!” I called out just as a taxi pulled

car. I winced at the mustard col or that stood out. I had been meaning to give it a good paint job but money

can finally just say screw it and buy a new car that wouldn’t stop on me or refuse to start.

was starting to

hand patted the

my cheek, I lift my head to the sky. I closed my eyes and smiled as the rain belt over me. I even removed

crazy to stand in the

.

were showering

through. There was no way I’d have anyone see the red bra I

the door, wincing a bit by the screech, I put

Harrington.co.

couldn’t help but

be one of the employees working

in on a little

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