The Girl He Craves

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Sophie’s pov

The old man, who now I know was Aiden’s grandfather, swirled in his chair so he can get a better look at me.

His eyes are cold. Dead. And annoyed.

Aiden’s words had rendered me speechless so much so that I had completely turned a blind eye to the two bulky men standing in the far corner.

Must be Aiden’s grandfather’s bodyguards.

They stood with their hands tightly clamped together at their front, their posture stock.

I looked at Aiden, muted, confused, and stunned.

Did I really hear him right?

Did he just call me his fiance?

My fingers clutching the door handle tremble.

I have no idea what to say. How to react.

I’m lost.

“A fiance with no ring?” Aiden’s grandfather grumbles tightly, eyes sweeping down to stare at my hand.

My hand that’s bared of any ring.

My heart slams. Maybe this wasn’t a dream. Maybe this was actually happening and Aiden had just called me his fi-

ance.

“I’m still searching for that perfect ring. My woman de- serves the best after all.” Aiden answers bluntly and walks around his desk and approaches me with a look that told me to play along.

But what the hell was he playing at?

Aiden comes to stand beside me, his arm rooting around my waist. “Sergio meet Sophie, my fiance, Sophie meet Ser- gio, my grandfather and chairman of Harrington.co.”

My eyes widen.

Chairman!

more firm, as if warn- ng me to not

unsure if I really wanted to play this game or not.

of Harrington.co, this man

to lie to his

squeezed me closer, another

that you can notice on

into a small box, unsure of

grits lowly in warning, low

hear.

of his face. He’s wearing a

for whatever reason, he

I sighed.

This was trouble.

turn back to Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice to meet

fa- ther is not my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence, he doesn’t have my last name.” He

Embarrassed

Harring-ton. Please forgive my

Aiden and he asked

low me whole. I made a fool out of myself and clearly, Sergio didn’t like

steel as

very intelligent woman and would be your future granddaughter-in-law. Please

playing a role. And that role made him commit to defending me. If he want-

both of us, his eyes showing that he did not

was my stiff posture as Aiden kept me close. You couldn’t blame me, Aiden being close to me did things to my body I didn’t want

with an au- dience, one being his

eyes narrowed on my face and I can almost see all those bad things he thought

the furious displeasure and disgust

His eyes swang over to

this was twenty questions about my relationship,” Aiden says

feel the irritation rolling off his

and he regarded

have I

grandfather. Don’t you think I deserve to

swore I could literally hear the gritting of Aiden’s teeth as he answered. “I only got engaged last night. Must’ve slipped my mind to tell you

looked like Aiden’s words had left a