My chest tightened to the point of my emotions exploding, my mind going blank as I stared at her.
Who is she? Why was she acting like he belonged to her—to each other?!
“Oh, don't worry, Bella,” she purred with a snake’s smile. “I'm pretty sure I was born Bella, unlike you who’s born Mirabella. I'm the real Bella. Aren't I, Rowan?”
Rowan stood, blinking at me and then at her. He smiled, “Yes. You... you're my one and only Bella.”
My eyes widened, my heart dropping on the forest ground. “Rowan...Rowan, what are you saying?!” I swallowed, this time I let all the anger in my soul shine in my eyes and see in my face.
The other males gathered around the fire stood to watch the three of us.
My knees buckled, and in a heartbeat, I was on the ground. I looked like I’m pleading at him to make whatever is happening right.
Is this a prank of his? A drunken session gone wrong?
I don’t know what’s happening. My tears blurred my vision as the realization that he claimed another female in front of me who also goes by the name of Bella struck me. I slowly unfurled my hand and I took off the ring that I found earlier.
I let the ring fall.
But Alpha Rowan hurriedly picked it up before my knees and dropped to one knee in front of the other Bella.
“Bella, will you be mine?” he asked softly, full of love and affection.
Rowan was kneeling in front of this female, this other Bella, proposing.
And I can’t help but cry silently and clenched my fist even when the forest soil turned my hands filthy.
I ran away. My soil-covered hands gripped the steering wheel as I drove under pressure, ignoring the pounding of my heart and the roaring of my blood.
But no matter how I drove fast, my tears fell faster with everything that happened. It all happened in minutes, and I’m still processing what I just witnessed. How could Rowan propose to another female named Bella?
My entire world shattered at the sight of Alpha Rowan of the Moonstone Pack proposing to another female to be his Luna. I couldn't take it anymore so I ran straight for my car.
But as I was about to drive away, Rowan fell face-first into the forest ground and his head kissed the soil with a thud that shook the nearby leaves from the trees. He passed out before the other Bella could even answer.