Chapter 39

Sophie’s pov

There are a million thoughts storming through my mind at this moment. Some didn’t even make sense.

Who’s standing before me didn’t make sense.

Was I even making sense?

My throat feels tight, emotions go haywire in my body. My heart is thumping loudly. I can’t think properly.

Standing before me, dressed in an expensive suit was Aiden Xavier. My high school bully, the guy I love, the guy who was supposed to be in jail. Ashton’s father…

I gulped.

He still looked the same after all those years. His blue eyes were still so beautiful, though I noted a strange look in them. They were dead.

And his lips. So straight, stiff, and unsmiling.

The power that radiated off of him had me squirming.

Aiden was even more handsome now with his hair shaved at the sides neatly and his body was even more toned with muscles that bulged under his suit.

My mouth feels dry

He changed. Something was different about him.

He froze when he heard my voice and when his cold eyes fell into mine just like they always had done before, I felt heat swim in between my thighs.

He could still get a reaction out of me without even trying.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised about that.

But what I was surprised about was Aiden ripping his eyes away from mine and continuing to speak on the phone while ignoring me completely.

| shifted on my feet nervously as I stare at the side of his face.

Why was his eyes so cold when they stared into mine? Why did he stare at me blankly? Did he not remember me?

My heart slammed in my chest harshly. Can he really forget me so quickly?

was still angry with me for taking the stand three years ago? For confessing

heart singing. Three years. Three years without seeing his face and being

his face forward, his voice angry as he practically spits through the phone. I feel bad for the person

wasn’t dreaming and that this was reali ty. That Aiden was really

it in, my pulse roaring at our close proximity yet knowing that I shouldn’t give in to temptation and touch him. He had ignored me like he didn’t know me. Like he didn’t

I blinked.

a while for me to realize he was speaking

heart slamming and sweat coating

opened elevator doors and I smiled shakily in embarrassment as I

turn around, my eyes connecting with his blue eyes. There’s

his gaze away and punched the button almost urgently as the elevator doors closed and rid me

stand there, gnawing

earlier than the five years they

jail? I shook my head at the ridiculous thought. Aiden was many things, but he was not a

seem like he had changed a lot and perhaps I didn’t know him as much as /

when I remembered the huge secret

to bump into Aiden out of all people in New York. What

So confused

stared at the elevator until the door slides open again and Lisa,

furrowed as she stares at me in

okay. It feels like a rug was just swept out from under my feet

stare was indeed actually Aiden after all. It

Aiden’s pov

the damn files by later today.” I hissed on the phone as I stormed my way to the elevator with one hand in my front pocket and the other gripping the phone brutally.

between the almost closing doors and

“Aiden?”

was hearing a ghost. There was no way Sophie out of

or shift my composure. But when my eyes connected with hers, I

Sophie?

Sophie Bell?

cages of my

same, except that her cheeks got a little chubby which made

She looked fucking hot!

And her body….

a groan. She filled in nicely

into my arms like I desperately wanted to l ignored her and

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