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!

as if warn- ng me to

game or not. Especially when

chairman of Harrington.co,

I really want to lie to

squeezed me closer, another

was indeed powerful, that you can notice on his ace, but his grandson

into a small box, unsure of how

grits lowly in warning, low for me alone

hear.

face. He’s wearing a grin on his handsome face but I was not

forced grin and for whatever reason, he need- ed me to lie

I sighed.

This was trouble.

smiling faintly. “Nice to meet you Mr.

fa- ther is not my son, his mother is

Embarrassed

so-rry Mr. Harring-ton. Please forgive my

Aiden and he asked tightly. “Does your fiance

swal- low me whole. I made a fool out of myself and clearly, Sergio didn’t

arms tighten around my waist like steel

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

playing a role. And that role made him commit to defending me. If he want-

looks at the both of us, his eyes

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

things with an au- dience, one being his grandfather

can almost see all

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

swang over to Aiden who grows stiff beside

twenty questions about

literally feel the

regarded Aiden with a cool ex-

I gotten

deserve to

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

he looked like Aiden’s words had