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!

firm, as if

smile, unsure if I really wanted to play this game or not. Especially when I had

was the chairman of Harrington.co, this man was

I really want to lie to

me closer, another

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

forced into a small box,

warning, low for

hear.

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

grin and for whatever reason, he need- ed me

I sighed.

This was trouble.

Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice

my son, his mother is my

reddened. Embarrassed

Mr. Harring-ton. Please

he asked tightly. “Does your fiance have a

me whole.

waist like steel as he an- swers Sergio with blunt

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

and con- fusing. But then I remembered that we were playing a role. And that role made him commit to defending

looks at the both of us, his eyes showing that he did not

as Aiden kept me close. You couldn’t blame me, Aiden being close to me

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

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

furious displeasure and

engaged?” His eyes swang over to

twenty questions about my

literally feel the irritation rolling off his

lift and he regarded Aiden with

I gotten myself

deserve to

could literally hear the gritting of Aiden’s teeth as he answered. “I only got engaged last night. Must’ve slipped my mind to

In fact he looked like Aiden’s words had left a