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?

Aiden had thrown us in hot water but he threw us in the burning

in the situation, not me. But if I were to threaten him with telling the media about his plan to

“As you can see Sophie, I was backed into a corner and this

me, his face flushing. “I cannot leave

as it is.”

shaky breath. I understood him and why he said

could we pull this off when I was a hundred percent sure I was not

all I could feel was pity. How can his own grandfather threaten

to sort for ways to stay in his

Ashton

how can

though we clearly still have problems seeing eye to eye, I wasn’t about to make the same mistake twice and

again.

waiter returns and asked

that starts

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

to bring us a glass of water while we wait, Aiden spoke up. “I don’t think you’re

smile.

“Don’t be ridiculous, there’s nothing I

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

no idea how we’re going to pull this off especially seeing

head and whispered. “You didn’t deserve to take jail in the first place. You also didn’t deserve not knowing

and I’ll be d**ned if I make the same mistake again. So yes Aiden Xavier, I’ll be your

in shock. He must not have expected me to agree or