Ana shrugged it off. “None of my business. Let go of me.”
Aris tried to pull her hand free, but Liam’s grip was unyielding. His irritating voice kept echoing in her ears.
“Aria, do you still..” Liam’s words were abruptly cut off.
Fed up, Aria suddenly twisted his arm with a reverse grip, pivoted her hips, and flung him away.
He landed right at Owen’s feet.
One more step forward and Liam would have crashed right into him.
Owen looked up just in time to see Aria, having just flung the man aside and walked away without a backward glance, her retreating figure radiating complete indifference.
With a smirk, Owen stepped past Liam and walked inside.
Suddenly struck by a thought, Owen halted mid–step, turned back, and said coldly, “Mr. Cole, a man should know his place. Since the divorce is final, stop harassing Aria.”
Liam sat up, wincing as he clutched his side. At the warning, his gaze turned frosty. He replied coldly, “What’s it to you?”
The last time Aria saved him, she’d thrown him down just like this, too.
Liam thought, ‘At least she still reacts to me—that’s better than her treating me like a complete stranger.
“I’ve got a better shot than Owen.‘
Owen lowered his gaze, a shadow settling over his deep–set eyes. With casual indifference, he remarked, “Harassing my neighbor makes it my business.”
Owen sneered, “Also, don’t flatter yourself. Aria never liked you, not even once.”
Liam struggled to his feet, wincing in pain, and sneered, “If she doesn’t like me, you really think she’d like you?
“With the advantage of being so close, you still can’t win her heart. Face it. Aria would never fall for someone like you.”
Any guy could see that Owen had feelings for Aria.
From the looks of it, the two of them clearly weren’t together.
Owen looked at Liam with a mocking tone and said, “Let’s not debate whether she likes me or not. But one thing’s for sure–she’d never be interested in a man who cheated on her and tried to steal her company shares.”
Liam’s expression darkened. “There’s a misunderstanding between us. I’ll clear it up myself. Stay out of this, you outsider.”
If it weren’t for Hannah deliberately making him mistake her as his savior, Liam wouldn’t have taken that wrong step and ended up on this path.
Now that Hannah had been sentenced and paid the price, no one was to cause trouble between them.
Liam thought, ‘As long as I take things slow and steady, Aria will fall for me again.’
Owen swept a glance at Liam’s shifting expressions and sneered, “Confidence is good, but think–what makes someone as morally tainted as you think
you can even appear before her?”
Liam snapped, frowning, “Who are you calling tainted?”
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Owen smirked, a hint of mockery in his eyes. “Mr. Cole, after all this time with Miss Gibson, do you really expect anyone to believe you’re still pure–body
and sout?”
Liam’s face flushed with alternating embarrassment and anger as he realized the implication. He shot back, “Who would’ve thought–the illustrious second heir of the Shaw family, the renowned attorney Owen, would harbor such outdated notions?”
Owen pretended not to catch the sarcasm in Liam’s words. “So, it seems you really aren’t so clean after all,” he replied, his tone cool and edged with irony.
“A filthy scum like you shouldn’t even be seen here. Don’t let this happen again, or…” He paused, his gaze deliberately locking onto the hand Liam had on Aria. “You’ll lose that hand.”
Liam instinctively clenched his fists. “Who are you to say that to me?” he snapped. “Are you so clean yourself?”
Owen smirked. “Spotless.”
Liam was at a loss for words.
Liam snapped, “A family like the Shaws would never accept a divorced woman.”
Owen lifted his gaze, his eyes glinting with dangerous intensity.
Liam thought Owen had taken his words to heart and pressed on, “Even if you manage to win Aria over, you’ll only end up hurting her. She’s been through a failed marriage. She shouldn’t suffer a second heartbreak.
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