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!

as if warn- ng me to not

play this game or not. Especially when I had no clue why we were play-

was the chairman of Harrington.co, this man

really want to lie to

squeezed me closer, another

that you can notice on his ace, but

small box,

grits lowly in warning,

hear.

his face. He’s wearing

grin and for whatever reason, he need-

I sighed.

This was trouble.

Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice to meet you

“It’s Harrington. Aiden’s fa- ther is not my son, his mother is my

Embarrassed

so-rry Mr. Harring-ton. Please forgive my

sweep over to Aiden and he asked tightly. “Does your

the floor to open up and swal- low me whole. I made a fool out of myself and

steel as he an- swers Sergio with

speech issues. She’s a very intelligent woman and would be your future granddaughter-in-law.

then I remembered that we were playing a role. And that role made him commit to

his eyes showing that he did not

posture as Aiden kept me close. You couldn’t blame me, Aiden being close to me did things to my

to feel these things with an au- dience, one being his grandfather in the same

almost see all those bad

by the furious displeasure and disgust swimming

His eyes swang over to

twenty questions about my relationship,”

literally feel the irritation rolling

he regarded Aiden with a cool ex-

have I gotten myself

deserve to know when my

could literally hear the gritting of Aiden’s teeth as he answered. “I

look convinced. In fact he looked like Aiden’s words had left a bad