#Chapter 211: Where Is Aria?

Liam’s POV “Isabelle, I just need to talk to Aria,” I said, pleadingly. “If you just tell me where she is –” “Then you’ll continue to bother her.” Isabelle, arms crossed, glared at me in open disgust and distain. “She told me what she saw. And it makes me feel a thousand times worse, for having told her what I saw.” “You saw me with Joanna’s ring,” I said. “Yes, but I thought it was a ring for Aria. When she went there tonight, she was expecting you to propose, Liam. You can imagine her shock at seeing what she saw instead.” “She…?” The thought fizzled my brain. How could that be? She thought I was going to…? And still she went…? Would she have said yes? God, just how badly did I mess everything up? Earlier tonight I had no idea I had been on the cusp of claiming everything that I ever wanted. If I’d known I had been so close… I’d made so many excuses. I twisted everything around in my head to make it make sense. But the truth was much messier, wasn’t it? I’d thought th