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

sheepishly. “I did. But 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 a way to send me back into jail, I’d also raise

Sophie, I was backed into a corner and this was the only way out. I did it for my son

his face flushing. “I cannot leave you and Ash

as it is.”

understood him and why

we pull this off when I was a hundred

all I could feel was pity. How

for ways to stay in

doing this for Ashton

how can

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

again.

the waiter returns and asked us if we

something that starts with

once looked at the menu I told the waiter I wanted whatever Aiden just

Aiden spoke up. “I don’t

smile.

snorted lightly. “Don’t be ridiculous, there’s

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

be your pregnant fiance. I have no idea how we’re going to pull this off especially seeing as I’m not pregnant but

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

few years and I’ll be d**ned if I make the same mistake

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