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!

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

unsure if I really wanted to play this game or not.

of

to lie

squeezed me

notice on

into a small box, unsure of how

warning,

hear.

over to the side of his face. He’s wearing a grin on his handsome

reason,

I sighed.

This was trouble.

back to Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice to meet you

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

Embarrassed beyond

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

sweep over to Aiden and he asked tightly. “Does

the floor to open up and swal- low me whole. I made a fool out of myself and clearly,

my waist like steel as

issues. She’s a very intelligent woman and would be your future granddaughter-in-law.

But then I remembered that we were playing a

us, his eyes showing that he did not believe

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

feel these things with an au- dience, one being his grandfather

can almost see all those bad things he thought about

by the furious displeasure and disgust swimming through his eyes as

two get engaged?” His eyes swang over to Aiden

know this was twenty questions about my

can literally feel the irritation

lift and he regarded

have I

you think I deserve to know when my

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

convinced. In fact he looked like Aiden’s words had left a bad taste