The Girl He Craves novel (Sophie and Aiden) novel Chapter 81

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Aiden’s pov

Austin gave me many pointers that I would definitely use.

Don’t rush.

Don’t be too impulsive.

Don’t get angry at her much.

Give her time to warm up to the idea of her not being the only one to take care of Ashton alone.

Give her reasons to trust me.

Treat her with respect.

I can do those simple things….

Except, maybe I’d have a little trouble with moving slowly with her. I’ve always wanted that woman, I craved that woman for years. Now that we would always be tied together forever because of our son, there was nothing that can be in my way to get her.

Well except for her heart and mind. This two had a vindic- tive over me, I was sure.

I shake my head. Of course I had to get her heart first if I even want her…

I looked over at the clock. It was almost twelve. Almost noon. Lunchtime.

This was a nice way to do something for her. Maybe if I buy her lunch she’d not be so angry. Though she had a good reason to be. She did see that dirty thong in the drawer and that stupid note that suggested I had sex with Noel. Which I did not!

Women….

Some can be snakes when they want to. I’ll have that bitch pay dearly. I will leave a bad review for her and spoil her name. I want to see if she can get herself a new job and get herself out of the gutter.

I would feed her, her karma personally.

She should’ve known I’d retaliate after she pulled that stunt and made Sophie build back those walls I was trying to break. And sure it wasn’t close to breaking but it did crack a bit when I pulled her into my arms and kissed her.

I felt her melt into me. Her mouth had turned soft and she definitely kissed me back.

She was still attracted to me, especially with how she gave in to me yesterday. And sure I said something nasty and un- forgiving to her but I hope that she would someday find it in her to forgive me for my stupid words.

Sometimes I believe I should have a filter or a damn tape on my mouth. I say the stupidest shit at the wrong time and now it has cost me more.

My words had scarred her into not trusting herself to give in to me. I had a lot to fight against but I wasn’t one to back down.

I don’t care how long it takes, Sophie will be mine and we will be a family.

I just need to tread these waters carefully and hopefully, she’d open up to me and weaken those walls. For now, I need to work on making her trust me.

I picked up the phone and dialed her. She picks up quickly and her soft voice sends a shock to my cock that stirred.

That’s something I need to work on too. When it comes to her my cock doesn’t really know when to calm down.

“Sophie,” I breathed out while fixing myself on the chair in hopes that my cock would calm down.

“Mr. Xavier.” She answers bluntly.

I winced. I couldn’t exactly be mad at her for her cold emotionless tone. But I would admit seeing her jealous flush

was rather cute.

I picked up the pen, my heart racing. It feels like I am a teenager all over again. How embarrassing.

I’m literally sweating buckets, nerves wrecking my compo- sure. She’s not even here in the room and I’m a nervous wreck. Embarrassing indeed.

“It’s noon now. Are you hungry?” As soon as I asked that question I leaned forward in anticipation of her answer.

She takes a few seconds to respond. “Famished actually. I was just about to head to your office to ask for permission to leave for lunch-

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My palm slam against the desk lightly as I rushed out.

“No!”

I heard her sharp intake of breath. Obviously, she was stunned by my sudden outburst.

I cleared my throat and scratched the back of my head in embarrassment. Great. I fucked up already. Again.

I cleared my throat.

“I mean no, no need to leave for lunch. I’ll order some- thing to eat and you can come to the office to eat here. What do you crave for?” I asked nervously.

To my disappointment and not so much shock, Sophie denied. “No that’s fine Mr. Xavier. No need to order me lunch, I’ll just head to the staff canteen and look for something there like the rest of your employees.”

I gritted my teeth. I hated that she referred to me as ‘Mr. Xavier’ as if we were strangers. We had a son, we were com- pletely far from being strangers.

“No, I insist Sophie. We need to talk about Ashton any- way. All we’ve done since morning was argue and more argu- ing. I think it would be good to talk about Ashton over lunch. That way we both would be more relaxed.”

I felt a bit guilty putting my son into my mess in trying to get his mother to have lunch with me privately, but I had to do something or else her stubbornness would surely win.

I gnaw on my lips as I waited for her answer. She took longer than I thought and I began to itch. I loosened my tie and swallowed.

Shit. This woman still gets me nervous as fuck after all these years. And here I thought I had gotten over her. Just thinking about it had me snorting.

Get over her my ass. I’m literally sweating and on the verge of a heart attack by just waiting for her answer.

And then she let out a puff of air and breathed out reluc- tantly. “Okay fine. But only about Ashton. Also, I actually crave some hawaiian pizza.”

I could literally hear the smile in her voice when she men- tioned what she craved for. A little part of me hoped she’d say she craved for me. But that part was just horny.

Pizza was a fast good and wasn’t healthy but I didn’t want to sound like a prude and tell her that her choice of food was- n’t good for her.

So instead of telling her to add some veggies in there, I smiled and nodded even though she couldn’t see me.

“Okay then mama bear, coming right up,” I said and smiled so big that I feared my lips were about to split my en- tire face in half. I loved calling her mama bear, it suited her well.

This was good. This was a good step forward. She’d have lunch with me and maybe if I play my cards right, I can crack a few of those walls she built up.