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

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

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

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

as it is.”

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

this off when I was

the table and suddenly all I could feel

for ways to

was doing this for Ashton and he

can I

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

again.

returns and asked

starts with a T

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

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

smile.

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

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

deserve to take jail

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

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