bMy /bfather balso /bknew that my marriage with bFerris /bcould onlyst three years.

bSo /bfrom the day I signed that agreement, he had been searching bfor /bcandidates for my next partner.

bAs /bfor my thoughts, they considered them irrelevant.

The only requirement 1 proposed was that my future partner, whether poor or rich, handsome or uglyb, /bcould only have me as their sole mate.

I wanted something pure–a soul bond untainted by any other scents.

If this couldn’t be satisfied, I would rather never marry again.

I hadn’t expected that the legendarily cold and domineering ck Mountain Alpha–Adrian Thorne–would readily agree to this requirement.

He said: “I don’t need ba /bbsecond /bLunab./bb” /b

In that moment, my fingers holding the phone tightened slightly.

The certainty Ferris had never given me, another man was willing to promise.

Ferris returned the next afternoon.

He pushed open the bedroom door and saw the open suitcase spread on the floorb, /bconfusion shing in his eyes.

“What’s this about?”

My hands paused in packing: “Oh, you’re back. My family misses me, so I’m going back to Stardust pack for a few days.”

I’d lived in this vi for three yearsb, /bbut I didn’t have many belongings. Still, I needed to pack everything up properly to throw away.

When I left, I wouldn’t leave behind anything that belonged to me.

Just as I finished speaking, my gaze caught the ambiguous red marks on Ferris’s neck. I froze for a moment, then looked away as if nothing had happened.

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I had given up on Ferrispletely.

So whoever he fooled around with was no longer my concern.

Hearing this, Ferris frowned: “Why the sudden return to Stardust pack? Still angry aboutst night? Trying to avoid me?”

“bNo/b, bI /bjust miss my parents and want to see them.”

bAt /bmy response, Ferris’s brow rxed: “It’s good to go back for a visit.”

He seemed to have forgotten that in these three years, I had never once returned home.

I was bmy /bfather’s illegitimate daughterb, /bmy only purpose being sent away for arranged marriages when my sister Lilith didn’t want to marry.

Ferris didn’t pay much attention: “Let me know the day you return to Silver Moon, and I’ll send someone to pick you up.”

bHe /bhad no suspicion whatsoever that I would leave him.

bAfter /ball, in his viewb, /bbI /bloved him so much that I’d given bup /bdignity and life itself just bto /bstay by his bside/b.

1 lowered my beyes /bbsubmissively /band softly replied “okay.”

I would never be /bbback/b.

I said silently in my heart.

bFerris /bwanted to say something more when his phone rang.

After taking the call and talking for several minutes, Ferris hung up and said to me: “I have to go out for something. I bought you a gift–the beta will deliver it

I responded indifferently.

Ferris said nothing more and turned to leave.

Shortly after he left, I received a message from a C&D store clerk.

[Miss Aurora Windsor, your custom women’s diamond ring has arrived at the store. When you have time, pleasee collect the item and see if there are any other styles you likeb./bb] /b

C&D was a world–renowned diamond ring brand, with its highest–end line only affordable to top billionaires worth over ten billion.

Seeing this message, I was stunned and replied: [Are you mistaken? I never ordered a diamond ring.]

After a while, the clerk sent me a photo.

A six–carat rare blue diamond was set in an outer ringposed of small pink diamonds and colorless diamonds, sparkling brilliantly under the lights, breathtakingly beautiful.

Clerk: [We made an error. This isn’t a ring you ordered, but one a gentleman ordered for you.]