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!

waist gets more firm, as if warn- ng

I really wanted to play this game

was the chairman of Harrington.co,

I really want to

me

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

a small box, unsure of

lowly in warning, low

hear.

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

for whatever reason, he

I sighed.

This was trouble.

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

features darkened. “It’s Harrington. Aiden’s fa- ther is not my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence, he doesn’t have

reddened. Embarrassed

Harring-ton. Please

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

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

steel as he an- swers Sergio

no speech issues. She’s a very intelligent woman and would be your

defense was both shocking and con- fusing. But then I remembered that we were playing a role. And that role

of us, his eyes

stiff posture as Aiden kept me close. You couldn’t blame me, Aiden being close to me

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

and I can almost see all those bad things he

stare, feeling violated by the furious displeasure and disgust swimming through

eyes swang over to Aiden who grows stiff

know this was twenty questions about my

literally feel the irritation rolling off

brows lift and he regarded Aiden with

I

deserve to know when

he answered. “I

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