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!

firm, as if warn- ng me

to play this game or not. Especially when I had

the chairman of Harrington.co,

I really want to lie to his

me

that you can notice on

was forced into a small box, unsure

grits lowly in warning,

hear.

over to the side of his face. He’s wearing a

grin and for whatever reason, he

I sighed.

This was trouble.

to Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice to

“It’s Harrington. Aiden’s fa- ther is not my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence, he doesn’t have

reddened. Embarrassed

so so-rry Mr. Harring-ton. Please

over to Aiden and he asked tightly. “Does your fiance have

low me whole. I made a fool out of myself and

tighten around my waist like steel as he an- swers

speech issues. She’s a very intelligent woman and would be your future granddaughter-in-law. Please

then I remembered that we were playing a role. And that role made him commit to

his eyes showing

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

with an au- dience, one being his grandfather

and I can almost see

feeling violated by the furious displeasure and disgust swimming through

you two get engaged?” His eyes swang over to Aiden

not know this was twenty questions

feel the irritation

he regarded Aiden with

I

you think I deserve to know when my grandson gets

of Aiden’s teeth as he answered. “I only got engaged last night. Must’ve slipped my mind

not look convinced. In fact he looked like Aiden’s words had left a bad taste