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!

my waist gets more firm, as

wanted to play this game or

the chairman of Harrington.co, this man

really want to lie

me closer,

was indeed powerful, that you can notice on his ace,

was forced into a small box, unsure of

Aiden grits lowly in warning, low for

hear.

gaze over to the side of his face. He’s wearing a grin on

and for whatever reason, he need- ed me to lie with

I sighed.

This was trouble.

back to Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice

my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence, he doesn’t have

reddened. Embarrassed

Please forgive

to Aiden and he asked tightly. “Does your fiance have a

to open up and swal- low me whole. I made a fool out of myself and clearly, Sergio

steel as he an- swers

issues. She’s a very intelligent woman and would be

shocking and con- fusing. But then I remembered that we were playing a role. And that role made him commit to defending me. If he want- ed Sergio to be convinced

his eyes showing that he did not believe

You couldn’t blame me, Aiden being close to me did things to my body

I did not want to feel these things with an au- dience, one being

I can almost see all those

squirmed under his stare, feeling violated by the furious displeasure and disgust swimming through his eyes as they

His eyes swang

not know this was twenty

the

lift and he regarded Aiden with a

I

think I deserve to know when my

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

look convinced. In fact he looked like Aiden’s