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?

hot water

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 a

“As you can see Sophie, I was backed into a corner and this

leave you and Ash alone. I have missed out on way too

as it is.”

understood him and why he said what he said. But

could we pull this off when I was a hundred percent sure I was

all I could feel was pity. How can his own grandfather threaten him so

he had to sort for ways to stay in his son’s

was doing this for Ashton and he needed

how can I

even though we clearly still have problems seeing eye to

again.

the waiter returns and asked us if

something that starts with a T and

guilty because I had not once looked at the menu

a glass of water while we wait, Aiden spoke up. “I don’t think

smile.

lightly. “Don’t be ridiculous, there’s nothing

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

then sighed. “Fine. I’ll pretend to be your 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

deserve to take jail in the first place. You also didn’t deserve not knowing

be d**ned if I make the same mistake again.

eyes widen slightly in shock. He must not have expected me to agree