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

“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

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

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

as it is.”

shaky breath. I understood him and why he said what

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

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

for ways to stay in his son’s

for Ashton

how can I

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 his chance

again.

to speak but the waiter returns and asked us if we have

grumbles something that starts with a T

looked at the

up. “I don’t think you’re

smile.

be ridiculous, there’s nothing I

eat.”

He smiles and nods.

pretend to be your pregnant fiance. I have no idea how

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

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