The Girl He Craves

Sophie’s pov

‘I agree, perhaps I should have talked to you about it before surprising you the way I did this morning. But he came over to the office unexpectedly,” Aiden murmurs when I didn’t respond.

I shook my head slightly. “I still don’t get it Aiden. Why me?”

He drags out a sigh, tore his stormy gaze away from and then shift them back to me. This time, they’re deep with emotion. Vulnerability.

“Because you’re the only one I trust Sophie. I can’t ask anyone else, there’s no other woman I’d want to parade on my arm other than you,” He says with such shocking honesty, I gulped.

My tongue feels heavy and I’m not sure how I am supposed to answer him.

He shakes his head, laughs dryly and clears his throat. “I can’t go back to jail Sophie, not when I just got to know my son,”

My heart squeezes.

“I can’t leave him like that. I need to be there for him.” He croaked out with heavy emotion.

“You’re powerful too Aiden, can’t you fight him on this?” I whispered. He was the CEO of one of the biggest companies in New York. There was really nothing he can’t do.

I froze.

Pregnant fiance?

“Aiden,” I whispered in disbelief. “Did you tell your grandfather I was pregnant?”

Was that the reason Sergio kept looking at me from head to toe?

us in hot water but he threw us in the burning

only way for him to accept this. Like I said, he’d look like the bad guy in the situation, not me. But if I were to threaten him with telling the media about his plan to

see Sophie, I was backed into a corner and this was

flushing. “I cannot leave you and Ash alone. I have missed out on

as it is.”

breath. I understood him and why he

this off when I was a

suddenly all I could feel was pity. How can his own

ways to stay

Ashton

how can I

we clearly still have problems seeing eye to eye, I

again.

returns and asked us if we have chosen our

something that starts

was and also guilty because I had not once looked at the menu I

water while we wait, Aiden spoke up. “I don’t think you’re going to like what you just ordered there

smile.

snorted lightly. “Don’t be ridiculous,

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

gnawing on my lips and then sighed. “Fine. I’ll pretend to be your pregnant fiance. I have no idea how we’re going to pull this off

head and whispered. “You didn’t deserve to take jail in

d**ned if I make the same

eyes widen slightly in shock. He must not have expected me to agree or he perhaps thought I’d put up