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?

Aiden had thrown us in hot

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 back

see Sophie, I was backed into a corner and this was the only

eyes back to me, his face flushing. “I cannot leave you and Ash alone. I

as it is.”

him and why

pull this off when I was a hundred percent sure

across the table and suddenly all I could

to sort for ways to stay

this for Ashton and he

how can

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

again.

about to speak but the waiter returns and asked

starts with a T and

because I had not once looked at the menu I told

Aiden spoke up. “I don’t think you’re going to like what you just ordered there

smile.

“Don’t be ridiculous, there’s

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

then sighed. “Fine. I’ll pretend to be your pregnant fiance. I have no idea how we’re

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

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

must not have expected me to agree or he perhaps thought I’d put up more