The Girl He Craves

Aiden’s pov

Something was very familiar with this woman. The way her bottom was shaped. The way she stood.

I stumbled out of the elevator when a thought slammed into my head.

No, it can’t be her.

What would Sophie Bell be doing in New York? Especially at Harrington.co?

She was probably sitting in her dorm room in college, talking to her roommate about weird s**t.

This woman wasn’t Sophie. She couldn’t possibly be her.

Besides Sophie had brown chocolate hair and she had less hips. Though those legs were long just like hers…..

I shake my head while watching the woman enter the elevator. When the doors close behind her, I’m convinced that I was going mad.

Was I still so obsessed with Sophie that I was now thinking a stranger was her?

| grunt and decided to forget about this mysterious woman. She was no one, she was not Sophie. And if she was, I wouldn’t care anyway.

Sophie Bell has been dead to me for three years.

I stormed my to Bernard’s office, frustrated that I even thought this woman was Sophie.

“Mr. Xavier,” Bernard’s secretary, Alice rose from her seat. She looks shocked to see me, or perhaps it was the invisible steam coming out of my ears that had her so stunned.

I ignored her and went straight for Bernard’s office without knocking.

As soon as I enter. I’m hit with a familiar scent. It was a floral scent, but the scent was very faint. It reminded me of…..her.

What. The. F**k.

I shook my head. I was really going mad today.

Bernard lifts his head from the mess of paperwork on his desk. He raised a brow. Of all my employees, Bernard was the only one who didn’t cower under my cold stare. I could give the old man props for that.

“Aiden

I glared at him and he stops. He knows how much I hate when he calls me by my given name. That name was only supposed to slip past the lips of those close to me.

Not because Bernard has been working for Harrington.co and was a trusted employee as

Sergio has mentioned, meant we were close.

“Mr. Xavier. What do I owe the pleasure

” Here are the reports I want you to look into.” I slam the file on his desk, frustrated that the light floral scent was still troubling my nose.

“Mr. Xavier

“Have them done by tomorrow.” Usually, I would have a more than five minute talk with him about the finances concerning the company, but I found myself itching to get out of the room and away from that scent.

I stormed out of his office.

“Mr. Xavier,” Alice nods when I stormed by. I don’t acknowledge her, needing to get out of where quickly

When I entered the elevator and pushed in my floor number, 38, I sighed in relief.

LE

As soon as the doors slide back close, I could finally breathe. But the frustration was still there.

Sophie Bell.

It was clear she was still haunting my mind to this day.

Igroaned. I slept with so many willing women to forget about her and it takes one mysteri ous woman that reminded me of her to have my entire composure crumbling at my feet.

I felt like that same high school boy who was so obsessed and in love with her that I’d do anything.

I was no longer that boy. I refuse to be that ‘boy’ again.

how long and

sure Sophie Bell forgot

sure did, with not even bothering to call me

I didn’t want

dings open and

red lipstick is one of the

finally

her gaze sweeps up quickly and her eyes hold that glint

demanded and walked away. She’s quick to stand

she was desperate to get on her knees

Bernard’s pov

door Aiden had just stormed out of in

Mr. Xavier storming

desk. “Not that I know of. He looked

shrugged. “Honestly it’s the blue-eyed devil we’re talking about. It

right, Mr. Xavier is always p**ed off,” Alice

about Sophie. She’s very hardworking and can grasp anything quickly. She’s the right fit

job. Alice utta

also resembles your daughter a lot. Almost the exact replica. They could even be mis

photo frame on my desk, almost buried by the

resort, not knowing that it would be the last

was five years

day, two years ago brought back memories I shared with my daughter. It was

had become someone I held dear even though the girl wasn’t my biologi

nodded, “She does, doesn’t she?

if she actually was your long-lost daughter you never knew about. Or at least

“Don’t be ridiculous, Alice. I had only one biological daughter. And even conceiving her with my wife was hard. I wasn’t a man

as

eyes dance around the

say that I found it in five min utes. But maybe

I’d have

really start eating

trail on my bottom lip when my

healthy when they showcase all those unhealthy foods here? I moaned. This was

and even more pleasant looking food. I will not be tempted today

refuse to be

table and chair, smiling awkwardly when some work ers who

was a new face here,

head, hoping it wasn’t the little flyaway

I have something on my

saw me gawking at the endless sweets and desserts

my gaze away

earlier before entering the elevator. No, that stare was different than

brushed on my skin quickly when that

ever only reacted to

person

was s**id to even think

in jail for goodness

Sophie’s pov

Alice said and

I called out just as a taxi pulled up beside

before sighing and walking over to my old car. I winced at the mustard col or that stood out. I had

that I had a new job, I can finally just say screw it and buy a new car that wouldn’t stop on me

smelled freedom. Hell, I was starting to see through those

you.” My hand patted the mustard color hood as I

I lift my head to the sky. I closed my eyes and smiled as the rain belt over me. I even removed that tight bun in my hair and let my hair down.

must think I was crazy to stand in

.

were showering

getting a bit see through. There was no way I’d have anyone see the red bra

bit by the screech, I put my seatbelt on and then

Harrington.co.

couldn’t help but

thought I’d ever be one of the employees working

let you in

ever get a good paying job like this. Not when I didn’t have the qualifica tions for