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

smile, unsure if I really wanted to play this game or

the chairman of Harrington.co, this

really want to lie to

me closer, another

was indeed powerful, that you can notice on

a small box, unsure of

warning, low for

hear.

side of his face. He’s wearing a

for whatever reason,

I sighed.

This was trouble.

smiling faintly. “Nice to meet

my son, his mother is my daughter.

Embarrassed beyond

Harring-ton. Please forgive my mis-

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

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

steel as he an- swers Sergio

woman and would be your future granddaughter-in-law. Please respect

that we were playing a role. And that role made him commit to defending me. If he want- ed Sergio to be convinced

looks at the both of us, his eyes showing that he did

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

feel these things with an au-

face and I can almost see all those bad things

feeling violated by the furious displeasure and disgust swimming through

engaged?” His eyes swang

know this was twenty questions about my relationship,” Aiden

can literally feel the irritation rolling off

brows lift and he regarded

have I gotten myself

I deserve to

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

look convinced. In fact he looked like Aiden’s words had left