"Really now?" Aiden raised his eyebrow, hearing her comment as a challenge.

"Yes," Sophia struggled to get out of his grip.

"Sunshine, I promise you will come running into my arms soon enough. It's not going to take that much time," he said with a deadly tone.

Sophia paused with her struggling when she saw the face Aiden was wearing. He gave off this very cold vibe, his eyes piercing into her soul. This was not the usual jovial, friendly Aiden she was used to. The gentleman was definitely gone and in his place was the devil.

She gulped, there was nowhere to go. She started breathing heavily, when he placed his hand around her slender neck, the motion of her bosom rising and falling had captured his attention.

With a dangerous glint in his eye, he ran a finger down the valley between her breasts, which he followed by a circular motion to encircle one globe. Eliciting a scream from her lips, "Aiden, No!"

He took a deep breath and murmured, "Soon… very soon." After a second, his face returned to the Aiden she knew. He got up and sat beside her.

She scrambled to get up and arrange her clothes, somehow while she was struggling, the top buttons on her blouse had become undone, no wonder she felt the full impact of his finger as it traveled between her breasts. Her face heated up, remembering what happened.

Aiden moved closer, and she inched away from him, "Shh…," he said in a soft voice as he tucked some hair strands behind her ear.

"Sleep well," he touched her cheek, and with a smile, walked out of her house.

Sophia felt so confused and messed up with the turn of events, she did not know what to make of his comment, "you will come running into my arms soon enough…." So she sat silently with her thoughts for a while, wondering how to deal with Aiden.

She had been naive once, believing love was beautiful, people were kind, and you get what you give. But she learned that falling in love, and blindly trusting the person with her heart was the biggest mistake she had ever made in her life, she vowed never to make the same mistake again. Nowadays, she believes that love just makes you vulnerable, and putting another person's feelings and happiness before your own always holds consequences.

As they say, once bitten twice shy, she was going to be smart, the second time around. She tried to analyze her feelings for Aiden, and she realized that she did not really love him, he was a good person, but other than that, nothing attracted him to her.

She was an orphan, so what can he get out of her other than being another of his conquests. 'He probably likes me because I'm stubborn, and I've ignored him so much that he's challenged himself to peel my layers and find the real me.'

His parents will probably have a say in the woman he would eventually marry, and an orphan like her would not be it. She knew how these rich families operated, they only dated their kind and the people who can bring something to their table.

Her plan was to just keep on acting like she did not care, her rude behavior will put him off eventually. Most of the men who tried had given up after a few months, so she was not that optimistic about Aiden either.

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The next morning, after she took a shower, Sophia was surprised that breakfast was already lying on the table. She looked at her watch and thought the only person who would come at 7am would be her assistant.

Aiden came from the kitchen, "Come and sit down before breakfast gets cold."

"What's all this?" she frowned.

After confessing, Aiden thought that if Sophia was not going to be convinced with his words, then he was going to show her how he really felt by his actions. So he decided to cook all her favorite dishes for breakfast.

"As you can see, it's breakfast. You always eat while you're working, that's not good for digestion," he said while serving her a plate.

She stared at him coldly with folded hands. Trying to distance herself from him.

"Eat. I made all of this for you," he prompted her by making her feel guilty.

"You do know that doing these things will not make me agree to be with you, right?" she scoffed.

Aiden shrugged, "Yeah, I know that. Let's not talk about all those things, just eat. You don't want all this food to go to waste, do you?" he smiled.

The smell of the food wafted into Sophia's nose, and her stomach grumbled even before she could reply, so there was no denying his request. She could not resist her needs any longer, and the more she looked at the food, the hungrier she got. Plus, she held Aiden's word that this would not affect her decision.

After breakfast, Sophia went back to her bedroom to get ready, put on her makeup, and fix her hair. So Aiden had to get to the door when the doorbell rang.

Sophia's assistant came to knock at her door, but when Aiden answered, she thought she had made a mistake, "I'm sorry.. I have the wrong…," she paused, looking at the number on the door, thinking she made a mistake.

She looked at Aiden Cooper closely, noticing that he was wearing house clothes so she speculated that this was not a business call.

"Come in, she's just getting ready," he smiled invitingly.

Shock reflected on her face, she was rooted in her spot. When she saw Aiden in her boss' office, the first thought that went through her mind was that he was courting Sophia, or maybe they were friends that wanted to spend time together. But this changes everything, the evidence shows they were already living together.

She had come to bring Sophia breakfast but realized that she already ate when she saw the dirty dishes and leftover food still on the table.

"You don't need to bring breakfast from now on," he instructed

The assistant nodded her head. Her imagination ran wild thinking that Sophia and Aiden were having lunch like a regular couple at work, and then now breakfast as well? She was not aware that things had progressed this far. She smiled at the possibility of wedding bells in the future.