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 me

game or not. Especially

chairman of

to lie

squeezed me closer, another

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

was forced into a small box, unsure of how I’ll

Aiden grits lowly in warning, low

hear.

face. He’s wearing

reason, he need- ed me to lie

I sighed.

This was trouble.

Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice

Aiden’s fa- ther is not my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence, he doesn’t

reddened. Embarrassed

Harring-ton. Please forgive

over to Aiden and he asked tightly.

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

waist like steel as

She’s a very intelligent woman and would be your future granddaughter-in-law. Please respect

to my defense was both shocking and con- fusing. But then I remembered that we were playing a role. And that role

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

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

feel these things with an au-

and I can almost see all those bad things he

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

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

was twenty questions

can literally feel the irritation rolling off

and he regarded Aiden with a cool ex-

I

I deserve to know when my grandson

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

does not look convinced. In fact he looked like Aiden’s