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-

a smile, unsure if I really wanted to play this game or not. Especially when I had no clue why we were play-

chairman of Harrington.co, this man was

to lie

squeezed me closer,

powerful, that you can notice on his ace,

box,

warning, low for

hear.

gaze over to the side of his face. He’s wearing a

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

I sighed.

This was trouble.

smiling faintly.

features darkened. “It’s Harrington. Aiden’s fa- ther is not my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence, he doesn’t have my last name.” He

reddened. Embarrassed beyond

Harring-ton. Please forgive my mis-

he asked tightly.

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

steel as he an- swers

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

us, his eyes showing that

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

feel these things with an

my face and I can almost see all those bad

feeling violated by the furious displeasure

engaged?” His eyes swang over to

twenty questions

feel the irritation rolling off

he regarded Aiden with a cool ex-

have I gotten

I deserve

Aiden’s teeth as he answered. “I only got engaged last night.

does not look convinced. In fact he looked like