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!

my waist gets more firm, as if warn- ng me to not screw

really wanted to play this game or not. Especially

the chairman of Harrington.co, this

really want to lie to

squeezed me closer, another

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

a small box, unsure of how I’ll

in warning, low for me

hear.

of his face. He’s wearing a grin on

reason, he need- ed me

I sighed.

This was trouble.

smiling faintly. “Nice

fa- ther is not my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence,

Embarrassed

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

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

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

tighten around my waist like steel as he an- swers Sergio with

speech issues. She’s a very intelligent woman and

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- ed Sergio to be convinced

his eyes showing that he did not believe

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

with an au- dience, one

eyes narrowed on my face and I can almost see

the furious displeasure and disgust swimming through his eyes as they

get engaged?” His eyes swang

know this was twenty questions about

can literally feel the irritation rolling off

lift and he regarded Aiden

I gotten

I deserve to know when my grandson

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

looked like Aiden’s words had left a bad taste in