Aria’s POV
“What… did you just say?” Liam asked, his face crumpled up with both disbelief and confusion.
I didn’t think I had said anything confusing. I knew Liam was protective of me, and I understood that instinct. Especially because I had almost drowned thanks to Sophia’s little vicious prank.
Yet still, the way Liam scolded her didn’t sit right with me. She was the mother of his child and he had treated her like she was a child herself.
“I said you shouldn’t have been so harsh to Sophia.”
“No, not that part. That part I understood,” Liam said. “What I need you to correct is if I just heard you refer to Sophia as the mother of my child?”
“Yes…?” Why was that giving him pause? Wasn’t that a well-known fact? “Did you think I didn’t know?”
He shook his head a little, and some of the
