#Chapter 204: Guest Of Honor

Liam’s POV The exclusive banquet hall where we were holding the engagement event had a few side rooms for potential brides and grooms to prepare if they were getting married there. I stood in the groom’s room, looking at myself in the full length mirror. Dressed in a tuxedo, I could have been a groom tonight. Thankfully, I wasn’t. I’d never let this ruse get that far. This engagement farce was already overdoing it. After tonight, I would wash my hands clean of this entire plot. Markus could think whatever he wanted afterwards, I didn’t care. Joanna could do what she wanted. I’d done my part, and I wanted free. Before I pushed Aria too far and lost her for good. Stepping away from the mirror, I walked toward the door and opened it a crack, enough to see out into the hall and the main room beyond. The guests were beginning to arrive, but there was no sign of Markus yet. It wasn’t like him to not arrive promptly. If he wasn’t the first one at an event, he considered himself la