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

forced out a smile, unsure if I really wanted to play this game

chairman of Harrington.co, this man was

I really want to lie to his

squeezed me closer,

was indeed powerful, that you can notice on his ace, but his grandson was not far

a small box, unsure of how I’ll

Aiden grits lowly in warning, low for me alone

hear.

He’s wearing a grin

and for whatever reason, he need-

I sighed.

This was trouble.

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

fa- ther is not my son, his mother

reddened. Embarrassed

so so-rry Mr. Harring-ton. Please

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

want the floor to open up and swal- low me whole. I

like steel as

no speech issues. She’s a very intelligent woman and

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

us, his eyes showing that he did

was 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

almost

violated by the furious displeasure and disgust swimming through his eyes as they

did you two get engaged?” His eyes swang over

know this was twenty questions

literally feel the irritation rolling

lift and he regarded Aiden with a

have I gotten

think I deserve to know when my

teeth as he answered. “I only got

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