"Then why did you?"
"Jason saw you first," he said simply, his voice dropping to a low rumble. "I was a loyal friend and a partner. I’d seen him with girls before—disposable ones—but with you... he was obsessed from the moment he saw you in that coffee shop. I thought you were beautiful, but it wasn't love at first sight for me like it was for him. He won you, without a doubt, and I had to respect that. But the more he brought you around, the more I understood why he was so gone for you. And the more I hated him for it."
Liam reached out, his fingers incredibly gentle as they tilted my chin up, forcing me to meet the dark, raw intensity of his gaze. "You are perfect. You’re everything a man needs in life. If I wasn't 'mean' to you, Sarah, then everyone would have known. Jason would have
