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

wanted to play this game or not. Especially when

chairman of Harrington.co,

to lie to his

squeezed me closer, another

was indeed powerful, that you can notice on

was forced into a small box, unsure

warning, low for me alone

hear.

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.

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

mother is my

Embarrassed

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

sweep over to Aiden and he asked tightly. “Does your fiance have a

low me whole. I

my waist like steel

has no speech issues. She’s a very intelligent woman and would be

we were playing a role. And that role made him

us, his eyes showing that he did

Aiden kept me close. You couldn’t blame me, Aiden

surely I did not want to feel these things with an au- dience, one being his grandfather in the same

on my face and I can almost see all those bad

furious displeasure and disgust swimming

two get engaged?” His eyes swang

did not know this was twenty

the irritation rolling

he regarded Aiden with a cool ex-

I gotten myself

think I deserve to know when my grandson gets

I could 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

In fact he looked like Aiden’s