Betty's POV

He gave me a single rose. I twirled the rose in my hand like some alien entity. My mind drifted to an old romance book where the male lead had confessed to the female lead using a single red rose.

The author had explained it meant only you....to choose someone as your soulmate. This time I could not control the annoying critter fluttering in my stomach.

My mind immediately gave me a mental slap to drag me back to reality. If it were someone else, I would ...