Aria’s POV
After that perfect date with Liam and then the just-as-perfect evening with my family, I awoke feeling more hopeful than I had in a very long time. For the first time since Markus and Joanna entered our lives, I began to look forward to my future as Liam’s wife.
It might be callous, I would never wish death on anyone, but I couldn’t deny it was a relief to not have Markus in our lives any longer. I only wished he had just chosen to respect us instead of meeting his end, but given what Liam told me about his childhood, I imagined Markus accepting anything Liam did would have been incredibly unlikely.
Even so, the man had passed, and now Liam and I, one way or another, were free to live our own lives.
There was, however, Joanna still to contend with. Perhaps she had lied to me
