Chapter 150: Movie-level Romantic

“Look! Isn’t it beautiful?” I held out my hand for Alyssa and Lizzie to see, unable to stop smiling. The ring sparkled even in broad daylight — a soft, clear glow that almost didn’t belong in such a sterile place as this. Lizzie gasped like I’d handed her a meteor. “Holy shit, Savannah. It’s huge!” She grabbed my hand and turned it toward the light, squinting dramatically. “Wait—hold on. Did you lose the other one? Why did he get you a new one?” “My thoughts exactly,” Alyssa said, leaning in for a closer look. “This is gorgeous, Sav. But what happened to the one you used to wear? That was pretty too. Please don't tell me you lost it.” I froze for a second. They didn’t know. None of them did. The first ring, the staged proposal, the whole fake engagement—those were things I’d neatly packed away in the past, buried under everything that had changed between Roman and me. The story was ours now—private, imperfect, and sacred in the way only something real and hard-won could be. And I had n