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

this game or not.

the chairman of Harrington.co,

want to

squeezed me closer, another

powerful, that you can notice on his ace, but his grandson was not

small box, unsure of how I’ll get

Aiden grits lowly in warning,

hear.

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

reason, he need-

I sighed.

This was trouble.

to Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice

my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence, he

Embarrassed beyond

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

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

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

tighten around my waist like steel as he an-

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

playing a role. And that role made him commit to defending me. If he want- ed Sergio to

looks at the both of us, his eyes showing that he did not believe

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

feel these things with an

almost see all those bad things he thought about

displeasure and disgust swimming through his eyes as

His eyes swang over to Aiden who grows

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

can literally feel the

and he regarded Aiden with a cool ex-

I

your grandfather. Don’t you think I deserve to

hear the gritting of Aiden’s teeth as he answered. “I only got engaged last night. Must’ve slipped my mind

not look convinced. In fact he looked like Aiden’s words had left