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?

thought Aiden had thrown us in hot water but he threw us

the 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 find a way to

I was backed into a corner and this was the only way out. I did it

me, his face flushing. “I cannot leave you and Ash

as it is.”

understood him and why he said what he

I was

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

for ways to stay

doing this for Ashton and he needed

how can

got his father in his life and even though we clearly still have problems seeing eye to eye, I wasn’t about to make the same mistake twice and

again.

but the waiter returns and asked us if we have chosen our

something that starts with a

and also guilty because I had not once looked

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

smile.

be ridiculous, there’s nothing I

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

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

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

I’ll be d**ned if I make the

must not have expected me to agree or he perhaps thought I’d put up