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

play this game

the chairman of Harrington.co, this man was

to lie to

squeezed me

notice on his ace, but his grandson was not

into a small box, unsure of

grits lowly in warning,

hear.

of his face. He’s wearing

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

I sighed.

This was trouble.

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

fa- ther is not my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence, he doesn’t

Embarrassed beyond

Mr. Harring-ton. Please forgive

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

swal- low me whole. I made a fool out

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

has no speech issues. She’s a very intelligent woman and

coming to my defense was both shocking 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

his

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 au- dience,

eyes narrowed on my face and I can almost see all

squirmed under his stare, feeling violated by the furious displeasure and disgust swimming

swang over to Aiden who

twenty questions about my relationship,” Aiden

the irritation rolling off

lift and he regarded

have I

your grandfather. Don’t you think I deserve to know when my

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

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