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?