That's when Sherry hung up. Staring at her phone, Stella made a few lip movements as if to speak, but she felt so powerless. She didn't fear Liam would ask Sherry to marry him at this point.
Sherry had previously given him a number of obvious clues, by his style of doing things, but he feigned not to understand them and came up with a lot of reasons. It seems he was flirting with that woman and wanted to be with Sherry at the same time. He would most certainly not pop the question to Sherry in order to escape taking responsibility for her.
However, Stella was unsure about how to inform Sherry of Liam's infidelity. Thirty minutes later, Sherry seemed furious and wrote her a message as expected: I misguessed. He didn't just give me a bag and ask me to marry him.]
Stella recalled that Li
