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!

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

wanted to play this game or not. Especially when

the chairman of

want to lie to

squeezed me closer,

indeed powerful, that you can notice on

small box, unsure of how I’ll get

Aiden grits lowly in warning, low

hear.

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

was a forced grin and for whatever reason, he need- ed me to lie with

I sighed.

This was trouble.

smiling faintly. “Nice

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

reddened. Embarrassed beyond

so so-rry Mr. Harring-ton. Please forgive my

to Aiden and he asked tightly.

I really did want the floor to open up and swal- low me whole. I made a fool out of

waist like steel as he an- swers Sergio with

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

and con- fusing. But then I remembered that we were playing a role. And that role made him commit to defending me. If he want- ed

the both of us, his

my stiff posture as Aiden kept me close. You couldn’t blame me, Aiden being close to me did

I did not want to feel these things with an au- dience, one being his grandfather

almost see all those bad things he

the furious displeasure and disgust swimming through his eyes as they pinned

you two get engaged?” His eyes swang over to

was twenty questions about my relationship,” Aiden

literally feel the irritation rolling

and he regarded Aiden with a

have I gotten

you think I deserve to know when

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

convinced. In fact he looked like Aiden’s words had left a bad taste