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!

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

to play this game or not. Especially

was the chairman of Harrington.co, this man

I really want to lie to

me closer,

you can notice on his ace, but his grandson

was forced into a small box,

Aiden grits lowly in warning,

hear.

his face. He’s wearing a

and for whatever reason, he need-

I sighed.

This was trouble.

Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice to meet

his mother is my daughter. Hence,

Embarrassed beyond

Harring-ton. Please forgive my

over to Aiden and he asked tightly. “Does your

and swal- low me whole. I made a fool out of myself and clearly,

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

speech issues. She’s a very intelligent woman and would

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

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

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

things with an au- dience, one being his grandfather in the

almost see all those bad things

stare, feeling violated by the furious displeasure and disgust swimming through his eyes as they pinned me

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

was twenty questions about

feel the irritation

and he regarded

I

grandfather. Don’t you think I deserve to know when

as he answered. “I only got engaged last night. Must’ve slipped

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