The Girl He Craves

Sophie’s pov

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Right this way miss,” Margo uttered while guiding me through Sergio’s huge house. I try to memorize the curves and corners so I would not get lost on my way back.

It’s difficult when all rooms look the same. But I don’t dare utter my confusion to Margo.

She stopped beside a huge door, turning towards me as she wrenches it open. “Here you go,” She smiles politely and I’m grateful that not everyone is as vile as Sergio in this house.

“Thank you, Margo,” I thanked her with a smile of my own and entered the bathroom. I closed the door and leaned against it until I heard her fading footfalls.

When I was sure I was alone, I peeled myself away from the door and strut over to the wall mirror and the sink.

I looked at my reflection and sighed.

There’s worry in my gaze, buried deep but I can detect it.

The worry mounted when Lillian brought up the pregnancy. For a second there I forgot about it and one wrong move would have made everything crumble down.

I let out a breath through my parted lips. “Oh Sophie, what had you got yourself into?” I shook my head and opened the faucet.

I washed my hands, leaning over the sink to pour some water over my face. Closing the faucet, I lift my eyes up and they connect with my reflection.

I cannot make Sergio push me in a corner and boast his triumph of finally cracking the barriers I held around me.

I will not make him succeed in trying to push Aiden and I apart.

Patting my face with some tissue, I tossed it in the toilet bowl and flushed. Gawking at my reflection ‘one least time, I let out a strained breath and opened the door.

Lillian leaning

the room, in means to avoid her but

“Sophie. How is Ashton?”

tongue, annoyed that she was trying to converse with me when we both knew she didn’t like me. That

the clack of her heels and

crossed my arms under my chest, staring

Better.” I answered

to the ceiling as she plasters on a thoughtful look. “Yes, I think Aiden

sweet but I could sense the hostility swimming at the

eyes, unpleased by her tactic

voice that she caught right away because the chirpy sweet blonde was no longer

short laugh, stepping forward. “Is that

has always been this way, especially to me. You know,

work out that way. It must be so sad

narrowed, pleasing me that I got on her nerves. Serves the

always get what I want,”

read it. The media can be such a bitch sometimes.”

brows furrowed. What post

she

about you being the homewrecker in Aiden’s and I relationship,” She shrugged, tucking her hair

at her. Aiden hadn’t

to vomit. The media was playing me out to

mean, I’m sure millions of people had read

arm away from her touch, my eyes dropping to the floor. I

my eyes darting across the floor as I try to not feel so nauseous. I can only imagine what people thought of me now. What they wrote, the slander