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 to

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

the chairman of

I really want to

me

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

a small box, unsure

Aiden grits lowly in warning, low for me alone

hear.

side of his face. He’s wearing a grin on his handsome

reason, he need- ed me to

I sighed.

This was trouble.

back to Sergio, smiling faintly.

Aiden’s fa- ther is not my son, his mother is my

reddened. Embarrassed beyond

Please forgive my

asked tightly. “Does

floor to open up and swal- low me whole. I made

my waist like steel as

woman and would

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 that

of us, his eyes showing that he

me, Aiden being close to me did things to my body I

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

I can almost see all those bad

furious displeasure and disgust

eyes swang over to Aiden

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

literally feel the

he regarded Aiden with a cool ex-

have I gotten myself

grandfather. Don’t you think I deserve to know

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

convinced. In fact he looked like Aiden’s