Liam’s POV
With terrible slowness, I realized what was happening right in front of me. I had thought, since Joanna and I were in this farce together, that she would have my back with Aria, who Joanna knew I loved. Yet, here, in the moment of truth, Joanna had twisted the knife once more and lied about everything.
I thought I had given her what she wanted when I had agreed to this fake marriage to help convince her parents, yet, seeing the vicious glee in her eyes here as she lied to Aria right in front of me, I realized that this had never been the case.
Maybe this part right here right now had been her plan all along. The farce might have been a trick concocted by her and Markus both to lure me into something that I would be unable to wind my way back out of.
Now, I was firmly in her
