The air went dead still.
Sarah's eyes flew wide, and she instinctively looked over at Liam. Liam stared back at me, dumbstruck. After a long pause, he frowned, his tone strained. "Where's this coming from all of a sudden?"
"Sudden how?" I tilted my head to look at him. "Before you ever met Sarah, didn't you tell me that no matter what she thought of you, you'd chosen me for life, and you wanted to marry me?"
Liam had nothing to say to that.
I understood exactly why he'd said what he had back then. He'd been afraid I'd break up with him the second he met Sarah. If that happened, even after finally getting near her through me, he'd have been dropped just like the three before him. Now, though, everything had shifted. He'd secured Sarah's approval, kept up the appearance of being my boyfr
