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?

thrown us in hot water but he threw us in

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

out and tore his eyes away from me. “As you can see Sophie, I was backed into a

“I cannot leave

as it is.”

let out a shaky breath. I understood him and why he said what he said.

I was

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

for ways to stay in

Ashton and he

can I

we clearly still have problems seeing eye to eye, I wasn’t about

again.

the waiter returns and asked us

that starts with a T

it was and also guilty because I had not once looked at the menu I told the waiter I wanted whatever Aiden

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

smile.

be ridiculous,

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

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 to jail

“You didn’t deserve to take jail in the first

I’ll be d**ned if I make

not have expected me to agree or