The Ring He Never Gave

When I was eighteen, after Brooks and I had sex for the first time in our rental apartment, he proposed to me with a cheap ring.

At twenty-four, he was found by the Davis family and became the heir to a prestigious and powerful household, but he secretly got engaged to someone else behind my back.

On the day of our sixth anniversary, I wanted to surprise him and came home early.

I happened to overhear his friend mocking him:

"Why are you still living in this dump? Are you really going to refuse the marriage alliance with the Tony family for your first love?"