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!

grip around my waist gets more firm, as if warn- ng me

smile, unsure if I really wanted to play this game or not. Especially when I

chairman of Harrington.co, this man

to

squeezed me closer,

on his ace,

box, unsure of how I’ll

Aiden grits lowly in warning, low for me

hear.

He’s wearing a grin on his handsome face but I was not fooled

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

I sighed.

This was trouble.

back to Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice to meet you Mr.

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

Embarrassed

Harring-ton. Please

to Aiden and he asked tightly. “Does

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

around my waist like steel as he an- swers

a very intelligent woman 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-

looks at the both of us, his eyes showing that

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

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

face and I can almost see all those

furious displeasure and disgust swimming through his eyes

engaged?” His eyes swang over to Aiden

I did not know this was twenty questions about my relationship,” Aiden says

feel the irritation rolling off

regarded Aiden with a cool ex-

have I gotten

think I deserve to know when my grandson gets

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

convinced. In fact he looked like Aiden’s words had