The Girl He Craves

Sophie’s pov

‘I agree, perhaps I should have talked to you about it before surprising you the way I did this morning. But he came over to the office unexpectedly,” Aiden murmurs when I didn’t respond.

I shook my head slightly. “I still don’t get it Aiden. Why me?”

He drags out a sigh, tore his stormy gaze away from and then shift them back to me. This time, they’re deep with emotion. Vulnerability.

“Because you’re the only one I trust Sophie. I can’t ask anyone else, there’s no other woman I’d want to parade on my arm other than you,” He says with such shocking honesty, I gulped.

My tongue feels heavy and I’m not sure how I am supposed to answer him.

He shakes his head, laughs dryly and clears his throat. “I can’t go back to jail Sophie, not when I just got to know my son,”

My heart squeezes.

“I can’t leave him like that. I need to be there for him.” He croaked out with heavy emotion.

“You’re powerful too Aiden, can’t you fight him on this?” I whispered. He was the CEO of one of the biggest companies in New York. There was really nothing he can’t do.

I froze.

Pregnant fiance?

“Aiden,” I whispered in disbelief. “Did you tell your grandfather I was pregnant?”

Was that the reason Sergio kept looking at me from head to toe?

Aiden had thrown us in hot water

in the situation, not me. But if I were to threaten him with telling the media about his

breathed out and tore his eyes away from me. “As you can see Sophie, I was backed into a corner and this was the only way

cannot leave you and Ash alone. I have missed out

as it is.”

a shaky breath. I understood him and why he said what he

could we pull this off when I was a hundred percent sure

table and suddenly all I could feel was pity. How can his own grandfather threaten him

for ways to

doing this for Ashton and he needed my

how can

still have problems seeing eye

again.

the waiter returns and asked us if we

that starts with

it was and also guilty because I had not once looked at the menu I told the waiter I wanted whatever Aiden

wait, Aiden spoke up. “I don’t think you’re

smile.

be ridiculous, there’s nothing I

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

my lips and then sighed. “Fine. I’ll pretend to be your pregnant fiance. I have no idea how we’re going to pull this off especially seeing as I’m not pregnant but I won’t

didn’t deserve to take jail in the

and I’ll be damned if I make the same mistake again. So yes Aiden Xavier,

me to agree or he