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?

hot

in the situation, not me. But if I were to threaten him with telling the media about his plan to find a way to send me back into jail, I’d also

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

eyes back to me, his face flushing. “I cannot leave you and

as it is.”

breath. I understood him and why he said what he said.

was a

at Aiden across the table and suddenly all I could feel was pity. How can his own grandfather threaten him

had to sort for ways

was doing this for Ashton

can I

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

again.

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

starts with a T

also guilty because I had not once looked at the menu I told the waiter I wanted

wait, Aiden spoke up. “I don’t think you’re

smile.

“Don’t be ridiculous,

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

serious, 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 especially seeing as I’m not pregnant but I won’t have you go back to jail

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

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

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