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 to not

smile, unsure if I really wanted to play this game or not. Especially when

was the chairman of Harrington.co, this man was

really want to lie to

me closer, another

powerful, that you can notice on his

box, unsure

warning, low for me

hear.

He’s wearing a grin on his

grin and for whatever reason, he need- ed

I sighed.

This was trouble.

smiling faintly. “Nice

is not my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence, he doesn’t have my last

Embarrassed

so so-rry Mr. Harring-ton. Please forgive my mis- take.”

to Aiden and he asked tightly. “Does

and swal- low me whole. I made a fool

steel as he an- swers Sergio with blunt

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

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

us, his eyes showing that he did not believe

me close. You couldn’t blame me, Aiden being close to me did things to my

not want to feel these things with an au-

I can almost see all those bad things he thought about

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

swang over to

know this was twenty questions about

literally feel the

regarded Aiden with a cool

have I

think I deserve to know when my grandson gets

I could literally hear the gritting of Aiden’s teeth as he answered. “I

like Aiden’s words had left a bad taste