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.

No matter how long and how many women it would take to forget about

Sophie Bell forgot all about

to call me when I

I didn’t want to think about her any longer.

dings open and

her desk, her red lipstick is one of the first things you’d

I’ll finally put

up quickly

demanded and walked away. She’s quick to stand up and follow behind me like a

looked like she was desperate to get on her knees for

Bernard’s pov

stormed out of in

second later and Alice enters. “Saw Mr. Xavier storming

head while reaching out for the file he placed on the desk. “Not that I know of. He looked

shrugged. “Honestly it’s the blue-eyed devil we’re talking about. It doesn’t take

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

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

job. Alice utta

resembles your daughter a lot. Almost the exact replica. They could

down at the photo frame on my desk, almost buried by the amount

it would be the last time our daughter would be living and breathing.

was five

in that diner that day, two years ago brought back memories I shared with my daughter. It was like I was staring at my daughter again, and seeing her

then, Sophie had become someone I held dear even

“She does, doesn’t she?

you never knew about. Or at least a relative.” Alice voiced

snorted, “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 who

Ash would love those.” | squealed lowly as I pushed small chocolate

dance around the cute

really hard to find the staff canteen and I was proud to say that I found it in five min utes. But maybe that was because

my foam container with endless desserts knowing I’d have to share

should really

bottom lip when my eyes fall on a red velvet

can I eat healthy when they showcase all those unhealthy

even more pleasant looking food.

to be

and chair, smiling awkwardly when some work ers who were eating around a circular table turned to stare

new face here, but

head, hoping it wasn’t the little flyaway hairs pulling in

something on

gawking at the endless sweets and

my gaze away

before entering the elevator. No, that stare was different than these, I could

my lips as I remembered how tingles brushed on my skin quickly when

body ever only reacted to one person like

person

I was s**id to even think

jail for

Sophie’s pov

the day Sophie!” Alice said and waved at me before putting her

too Alice!” I called out just as a

or that

can finally just say screw it and buy a new

I smelled freedom. Hell, I was starting to see

patted the mustard color hood as I made

on my cheek, 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. I was

I was crazy to stand in the rain. But right

.

were showering

through. There was no way I’d have anyone

the screech, I put my seatbelt

Harrington.co.

help but

thought I’d ever be

you in on a little

a good paying job like this. Not when I didn’t have the