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?

with me for taking the stand three

Three years without seeing his face and

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

that I wasn’t dreaming and that this was reali ty. That Aiden was really here. Mere feet away from me. So close

close proximity yet knowing that I shouldn’t give in to temptation and touch him. He had ignored

I blinked.

while for me to realize he was speaking to

coating my

getting out now?” He nudges his head to the opened elevator doors and I smiled shakily in

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

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

there, gnawing on my

earlier than the five years they sentenced him to

of jail? I shook my head at the ridiculous

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

remembered the

I managed to bump into Aiden out of all people in New York. What was Aiden even doing

was confused, So confused about

until the door slides open again and Lisa, Bernard’s PA

stares at me in

I felt far from okay. It feels like

was indeed actually Aiden

Aiden’s pov

files by later today.” I hissed on the phone as I stormed my way to the elevator with one hand in my front

between the almost

“Aiden?”

was hearing a ghost. There was

to make me nervous or shift my composure. But when my eyes connected with hers, I can feel the shaking in

Sophie?

Sophie Bell?

felt my heart slam in the cages

Her features were the same, except that her cheeks got a little chubby which made her look adorable. Her hair was also now

She looked fucking hot!

And her body….

out a groan. She filled in nicely over the three

pulling her into my arms like I desperately wanted to l ignored her and blasted Cindy on the other

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