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

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

was the chairman of Harrington.co,

really want to lie to

me closer, another

notice on his ace,

a small box, unsure of

Aiden grits lowly in warning, low for me alone

hear.

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

was a forced grin and for whatever reason,

I sighed.

This was trouble.

back to Sergio, smiling faintly. “Nice to meet

“It’s Harrington. Aiden’s fa- ther is not my son, his mother is my daughter. Hence, he doesn’t have

Embarrassed beyond

so-rry Mr. Harring-ton. Please

Aiden and he asked tightly. “Does your fiance

me whole. I made

like steel as he an-

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

my defense was both shocking and con- fusing. But then I remembered that we were playing a role. And that role

looks at the both of us, his

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

these things with an au- dience,

almost see all those bad things he thought

by the furious displeasure and disgust swimming

His eyes swang over to Aiden who

this was twenty questions about my

feel the irritation rolling off his

he regarded Aiden with

have I gotten myself

grandfather. Don’t you think I deserve to know when my grandson gets

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

he looked like Aiden’s words had left a