That was when Liam finally rose to his feet.

His body was rigid, his voice heavy with tightly restrained anger.

“The years when you should have been a real mother…” he said quietly, his controlled tone making every word even more devastating. “You wasted them.”

He took one step forward, his gaze icy, devoid of even the slightest trace of compassion.

“You were too busy humiliating yourself over a man who never truly chose you.” His expression remained cold. “A man never respects the woman who ag