They grew up together. When they became teenagers they fell in love with each other.
They promised to be with each other even if they couldn’t become mates. They were fated to be mates but things changed slowly,
His love for her slowly drifted away for someone else while her love for him increased. On their eighteenth birthday, she found she was his mate as she always wanted to be but too bad because he was calling another woman mate.
He simply threw her away from his life after finding a woman who he called his mate.
He was obsessed with his fake mate while his real mate was looking at them with pain.
“Bella, don’t leave... I didn’t know.”
When he finally found the crime behind him, he wanted her but it was too late because something terrible had happened to her, his real mate..