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?

thought Aiden had thrown us in hot water but he threw us in

me guiltily and 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

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

cannot leave you and Ash alone. I have missed

as it is.”

him and

when I was a hundred percent sure I

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

sort for ways to stay in

Ashton and he

how can I

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

again.

and asked

that starts with a T

what it was and also guilty because I had not once looked

of water while we wait, Aiden spoke up. “I don’t think you’re going to like what you just ordered there Sophie,” His lips tug

smile.

“Don’t be ridiculous,

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

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

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

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

not have expected me to