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?

had originally thought Aiden had thrown us in hot water but

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 way to send me

“As you can see Sophie, I was 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 missed out on way too

as it is.”

let out a shaky breath. I understood him

was a hundred percent

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

ways to stay in his

doing this for Ashton and he needed my

how can I

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 mistake twice and ruin

again.

but the waiter returns and asked us if we

something that starts with

because I had not once looked at the menu I told the waiter I wanted

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 there Sophie,” His lips tug into

smile.

“Don’t be ridiculous,

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

how we’re going to pull this off especially seeing as I’m not

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

a few years and I’ll be d**ned if I make the same mistake again. So yes Aiden Xavier, I’ll be

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