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

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

chairman of Harrington.co,

I really want to

me closer,

that you can notice on

a small box, unsure of how

Aiden grits lowly in warning, low for

hear.

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

a forced grin and for whatever reason, he need-

I sighed.

This was trouble.

to Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice to meet you Mr.

Harrington. Aiden’s fa- ther is not my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence,

reddened. Embarrassed beyond

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

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

me whole. I made a fool out of

like steel as he an-

She’s a very intelligent woman and would be your future

and con- fusing. But then I remembered that we were playing a

his eyes showing that he

my stiff posture as Aiden kept me close. You couldn’t blame me, Aiden being close to me did things to my body I didn’t want to

these things with an au- dience, one

my face and I can almost see all those bad things he thought about

stare, feeling violated by the furious displeasure and

swang over to Aiden who grows stiff

twenty

feel the irritation rolling

brows lift and he regarded Aiden

I

you think I deserve

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

does not look convinced. In fact he looked like Aiden’s words had