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!

waist gets more firm, as if warn- ng

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

was the chairman of Harrington.co,

really want to lie

me closer, another

powerful, that you can notice on

small box, unsure of how I’ll get

Aiden grits lowly in warning, low

hear.

side of his face. He’s wearing a grin on his handsome face but

reason, he need- ed

I sighed.

This was trouble.

smiling faintly. “Nice to meet

son, his mother is my daughter. Hence, he doesn’t have my last name.” He responded

Embarrassed

Please

sweep over to Aiden and he asked

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

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

has no speech issues. She’s a very intelligent woman and would be your future

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

us, his eyes showing that he

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

I did not want to feel these things with an au- dience, one being his grandfather in the

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

under his stare, feeling violated by the furious displeasure and disgust

engaged?” His eyes swang over to Aiden who grows stiff

was twenty questions about my

the irritation rolling off his

regarded Aiden with a cool

I gotten myself

deserve

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

not look convinced. In fact he looked like