Filed to story: The Girl He Craves Book by Demiah
Play it cool. You’re supposed to pretend too, don’t forget that. Don’t forget that this is all for show. Everyone’s watching, be calm.
Aiden leans forward even more, his eyes falling to my lips.
I held my breath because he was getting so close that I can feel the warm air from his nose on my face.
But then the tension cracks when he lifted his hand between us and asked. “Do you like it?”
My eyes crossed as I looked at the ring between us. It was sterling silver, and those pretty sapphire diamonds shone brightly.
They were not meant for someone like me.
A beautiful ring that should not be wrapped around my finger.
I felt like a fraud. Aiden was supposed to give a woman he loves this beautiful, expensive ring. Not someone who was supposed to act like his fiance just to get him out of trouble.
“It’s beautiful,” I answered, smiling lightly. Frank had his eyes on us like a hawk. One disagreement and I was sure he’d run to the media and say how I’m a selfish and unsatisfied bitch. Aiden grins and asked me again in a low voice that I alone could hear. “Where do you want to put it on?” He asked and then his eyes shifted to somewhere in the room and his jaw clenched.
He looks back over at me and leans forward and then draws his mouth over to my ear to murmur tightly. “Don’t look but there are two employees mumbling together. One has a phone and the other is watching us fixedly. We have to act accordingly.”
I’m confused until I got what he meant when he suddenly got on his knee before me.
My heart jumps in my throat and then resumes its beating, only that it was beating so quickly that it was alarming.
I know this was all part of the game we were playing at but that still did not help my poor heart.
Seeing Aiden on one knee, holding up the ring with shaky fingers, a sloppy nervous grin, and an even more edgy look flashing in his eyes made this all too real.
I’m trembling, especially my fingers that I try to fist to help not make it obvious how jittery I was at the moment with the father of my child down on his knees for me. “Sophie Bell-
He started and gulped, and my heart skyrocketed.
Aiden was definitely an actor in his past life because he currently was making this look too real.
But that’s what the two of you are striving for Sophie, to make this look all the more real. My conscience reminded me.
But even though it warned me to not read into this too much, my heart was not heeding the warning. Especially with the way he was currently watching me, it had the foolish organ beating rapidly. “I’ve never fallen in love with someone so much to the point I cannot breathe if I think of losing them. You’ve managed to capture my heart Sophie, you’ve captured it a long time ago-
I sucked in a sharp breath at his words. What did he mean?
Was he just saying that to make it more believable?
Aiden continues, looking as nervous as ever as if I had a choice to say no. Maybe I did, but I was not going to. Because maybe some part of me secretly wants this to be real.
Farfetched I know. But one can’t blame me. I have loved this man for years even through the bullying. Don’t judge me, sometimes the heart doesn’t choose who to fall in love with. It just happens.
“I’ve realized that my life was incomplete when you were not in it and when you showed up again, you have no idea how much you filled that void. I love you with every breath I take, every single breath. And I want to love you until the day that I can no longer breathe. I want to love you forever. I want you to be my wife.” He flashes me a shaky smile, his eyes misting.
The emotions in his eyes were pure and I could not focus on anyone else inside this store but Aiden. He had trapped me in his gaze. A gaze that seemed all too real. I realized, with every breath I took, that I was still madly in love with Aiden.
I was still so madly in love with him that my heart didn’t know the difference between his facade and the real side.
My eyes fogged with tears, ready to flow. Every worker had their eyes set on us. But they didn’t matter. Their phones in their hands didn’t matter. Their murmurs didn’t matter.
It was the man with the stormy gaze I had known for years that mattered. Always did.
“Let me love you Sophie Bell. Let me take care of you for the rest of our lives. Give me the honor to be by your side. Let me love you until death do us part. Will you marry me?” He whispered, looking jittery as he waited for my response.
My heart was beating wildly, my fingers were shaky. Fisting them did not help.
The longer I take to respond the more nervous he got. One would think that this act was true….
It was what we were striving for so I suppose that was a goo thing. But was it good for my foolish heart? Probably not.
I nod, my shaky hand pushing over to him. “Yes.
Sophie’s pov
There’s cheering around, but my eyes can’t move away from Aiden to see those who were cheering.
I knew that it was the people in the store who saw and heard everything. I didn’t need to know more.
He smiles brightly in relief and slips the ring on my trembling fingers. His fingers were warm, and gentle.
“The color matches your eyes,” He whispered and looked up at me with a grin.
I nod agreeing with him even though I didn’t even hear a word he just said. My mind was a bit too hazy with what just happened. I could not focus a hundred percent yet.
He comes closer, his bigger body almost pressing against mine. My heart is beating in my chest when one of his arms slip around my waist and hold me firmly.
He leans down and kissed my cheek and whispered. “Nice acting.”
His words had cold water splashing across my body, freezing me and pushing reality in my face. Acting.
We were just acting.
Stupid Sophie. Of course the two of you were acting.
He didn’t mean a single word that came out of his mouth.
“We need to show them that you’re extremely happy. We both are.” He whispered, kissing my cheeks again. His lips on my skin burned through me and heated my veins.
I ignored the feeling, setting cold ice in my heart instead. “How are we supposed to do that?” I whispered, my heart aching knowing those beautiful words he said had no true meaning behind them.
What a waste of beautiful words.
“Easy,” He murmurs, his head coming forward.
His hand at the back of my head, his fingers tangled in my hair, his head leaning down, my eyes on his lips, and then a gasp….
Our lips mold, perfectly even though we both were imperfect.
He moved them against mine softly, tenderly as one would do to his lover. Someone he loves.
My foolish heart flutters in my chest again like a bird flapping its wings.
He moans, drawing me closer to him. The way he gripped the back of my head and the way his lips sucked my lower lip in his mouth, Aiden definitely had forgotten where we were until I pulled away. We were in a store with many eyes on us, we didn’t need to kiss like we were about to fuck in front of everyone.
Aiden pecks my lips and brushes some of my hair behind my ear. His actions were playing with my heart but I was allowing him to.
Great he saw me looking at myself like a weirdo.
Looking away from the rearview mirror, I decided to scoot a little further to the door and fetch my buzzing phone.
My brows furrowed when I noticed that it was Mila’s picture on the screen.
Why was she calling me now? Did something happen?
I quickly slide my thumb over the answer button and brought the phone to my ear.