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 warn- ng

play this game or not. Especially when I

the chairman of Harrington.co, this man

want to lie to his

squeezed me

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

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

Aiden grits lowly in warning,

hear.

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

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

I sighed.

This was trouble.

back to Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice

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

reddened. Embarrassed beyond

Mr. Harring-ton. Please forgive my mis- take.”

he asked tightly. “Does your fiance have a

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

arms tighten around my waist like steel as he an- swers

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

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

of us, his

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

surely I did not want to feel these things with an au- dience, one being

and I can almost see all those bad things he

under his stare, feeling violated by the furious displeasure and

you two get engaged?” His eyes swang over to Aiden who grows

I did not know this was twenty questions about my relationship,” Aiden

can literally feel the

and he regarded Aiden with a

I

you think I deserve to know when my grandson

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

he looked like Aiden’s words had left a bad