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 me to not screw

game or not. Especially when I had no clue why we were play-

was the chairman of Harrington.co, this man was

want to lie

squeezed me closer, another

was indeed powerful, that you can notice on his ace, but his grandson was not far

small box, unsure of how

Aiden grits lowly in warning,

hear.

sweep my gaze over to the side of his 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

I sighed.

This was trouble.

back to Sergio, smiling faintly.

is not my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence,

reddened. Embarrassed

Please forgive my mis- take.” I

and he asked tightly. “Does your fiance have

time I really did want the floor to open up and swal- low me whole.

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

intelligent woman and

fusing. But then I remembered that we were playing a role. And that role made him

looks at the both of us, his eyes showing that he did not

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

things with an au- dience,

can almost see all those

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

two get engaged?” His eyes swang

I did not know this was twenty questions about my

literally feel the irritation rolling off his

and he regarded

I gotten myself

think I deserve

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

fact he looked like Aiden’s words had left