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

unsure if I really wanted to play this game or not. Especially when I had no clue

chairman of

want to

squeezed me closer,

that you can notice on his ace,

was forced into a small box, unsure of

Aiden grits lowly in warning, low for me alone

hear.

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

forced grin and for whatever reason, he need- ed me

I sighed.

This was trouble.

faintly. “Nice

fa- ther is not my son, his mother

Embarrassed beyond

Please

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

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

like steel as he an- swers Sergio with

very intelligent woman and would

were playing a role. And that role made him commit to defending me. If

us, his eyes showing that he

You couldn’t blame me, Aiden being close to

want to feel these things with

can almost see all those bad

under his stare, feeling violated by the furious displeasure

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

I did not know this was twenty questions

can literally feel the irritation

lift and he regarded Aiden with a cool ex-

have I gotten myself

think I deserve to know when my grandson

hear the gritting 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 in his