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.

my mind. No matter how

I was sure Sophie Bell forgot all about

call me when I was

my head. I didn’t want to think about her any longer. Didn’t even want to care

elevator dings open

is seated at her desk, her red lipstick is one of the first things you’d notice about

I’ll finally

approaching, her gaze sweeps up quickly and her eyes hold that

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

she was desperate to get on her

Bernard’s pov

looked at the door Aiden had just stormed out of in confusion. He sure looked flustered and a bit uncomfortable

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

shook my head while reaching out for the file he placed on the desk. “Not that I know of. He looked already p**ed off the

it’s the blue-eyed devil we’re talking about. It doesn’t take much to anger him. I’m sure

Xavier is always p**ed off,”

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

job. Alice utta

a lot. Almost the exact replica. They

photo frame on my desk, almost buried by the

that photo at a resort, not knowing that it would be the last time our daughter would be living and

was five years

shared with my daughter. It was like I was staring at

dear even

nodded, “She does, doesn’t she?

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

“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 spread my seed

| squealed lowly as I pushed small chocolate cupcakes inside the

eyes dance around the cute

I was proud to say that I found it in five min utes.

endless desserts knowing I’d have to share with Mila

really start eating

trail on my bottom lip when

all those unhealthy foods here?

from the pleasant aroma and even more pleasant looking food.

refuse to

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

a new face here, but was one look not

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

I have something on my

they saw me gawking at

gaze away

one I felt on my back earlier before entering the elevator. No, that stare was different than these, I could feel the

my lips as I remembered how tingles brushed on my skin quickly when that per son’s eyes pierced on my

only reacted to one person

that person

myself inwardly. I was s**id to

jail

Sophie’s pov

said and waved

I called out just as

my old car. I winced at the mustard col or that stood out. I had been meaning to give it a good paint job but money was always

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

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

to get rid of you.” My hand patted the mustard color hood as

to the sky. I closed my eyes and smiled as the rain

stand in the rain. But right now I didn’t

.

showering

my white blouse was getting a bit see through. There was no

the screech, I put my

Harrington.co.

couldn’t help but

ever be one of

in on

I’d ever get a good paying job like this. Not when