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 the

this. Like I said, he’d look like the bad guy in the situation, not me. But if I

“As you can see Sophie, I was backed into a corner and this was the only way out. I did it for my

flushing. “I cannot leave you and Ash alone. I have missed out on

as it is.”

understood him and why

off when I was a hundred

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

for ways to stay in

was doing this for Ashton

how can I

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

again.

the waiter returns and asked us if

something that starts with a T

guilty because I had not once looked at the menu I told

spoke up. “I don’t think you’re going to

smile.

snorted lightly. “Don’t be

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

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

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

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

me to agree or he perhaps thought I’d put up more of