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!

gets more firm, as if warn- ng me to not screw

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

of Harrington.co, this man was

want to

squeezed me

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

box,

Aiden grits lowly in warning, low for me

hear.

the side of his face. He’s wearing a grin on his handsome face but I was not fooled by

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

I sighed.

This was trouble.

to Sergio, smiling faintly.

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

reddened. Embarrassed beyond

so-rry Mr. Harring-ton. Please

and he asked tightly. “Does

low me whole. I made a fool out of

arms tighten around my waist like steel

intelligent woman and would be your future

coming to my defense was both shocking and con- fusing. But then I remembered that we were playing a role. And that role made him commit to defending me. If he want- ed Sergio to

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 didn’t want to

want to feel these things with an au- dience, one

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

the furious displeasure and disgust swimming through his eyes as they

swang over to

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

literally feel the

brows lift and he regarded Aiden

I gotten

Don’t you think I deserve

he answered. “I only got

convinced. In fact he looked like