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?

had thrown us in hot water

this was 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

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

flushing. “I cannot leave you and Ash alone. I

as it is.”

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

pull this off when I was a hundred percent

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

sort for ways to stay in

was doing this for Ashton and he

how can I

son just 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.

waiter returns and asked us if we have chosen our

starts with a T

once looked at the menu I told the waiter

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

smile.

snorted lightly. “Don’t be ridiculous, there’s nothing I

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

how we’re going to pull this off

to take jail in the first place. You also didn’t deserve

I make the same mistake again. So yes Aiden Xavier, I’ll

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