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!

around my waist gets more firm, as if warn- ng me to not screw

out a smile, unsure if I really wanted to play this game or not. Especially when I had no clue why we were

chairman of Harrington.co,

I really want to lie

me

you can notice on his ace, but his grandson was not far

a small box, unsure of

Aiden grits lowly in warning, low for me

hear.

my gaze over to the side of his face. He’s wearing a grin on his handsome face but I was

and for whatever reason,

I sighed.

This was trouble.

to Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice to

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

reddened. Embarrassed beyond

Harring-ton. Please

and he asked tightly. “Does

up and swal- low me whole. I

arms tighten around my waist like steel as he an- swers Sergio with blunt

intelligent woman and

my defense was both shocking and con- fusing. But then I remembered that we were playing a role. And that role made him commit

us, his eyes

blame me, Aiden being close to me did things to my body I didn’t want

things with an au- dience, one being his grandfather

can almost see all those

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

get engaged?” His eyes swang over to

this was twenty questions

literally feel the irritation

regarded Aiden with

have I gotten

I deserve to know when my grandson gets

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

In fact he looked like Aiden’s words had left a bad taste in his