#Chapter 174: Returning The Check

Liam’s POV I’d hoped that Aria sharing the secret of our marriage with Jackson might be a turning point for the two of us. She’d never shown any interest in sharing the secret before, and, though she’d been more or less forced to this time, I’d hoped she would see that nothing would change. Jackson knew now but he wasn’t going to treat her any differently. Hopefully, she could see that, learn from it, and maybe ease her hard opinions on this. I’d love to tell the whole world she was my wife if she would only let me. Yet, my hopes that things would change were squashed, the moment I saw her later in the day. She was leaving for the day, her bag over her shoulder, while I was simply delivering a new packet of forms to accounting. My father had struck again this afternoon, which led to me spending the rest of the day trying to unravel the accounts he’d tangled up. “Are you finished for the day?” she asked me, purposeful with her word choice. What she really wanted to know was if