My Mate Gave My Life-Saving Cure to His Ex

**Chapter 1**On the eve of the Blood Moon, snow fell hard over Silver Moon territory.By the time I reached Moon Hall, my right leg was almost numb. The wound the ice wolf had left there had split open again during the climb, and every step up the stone stairs sent a sharp, burning pain through my knee. One of the warriors at the entrance saw me stumble and reached out, but I shook my head before he could touch me. I had carried the silver medicine case through three months of frozen forests, black marshes, and border roads soaked in rogue scent. I was not going to drop it at the door.Inside the case was the last vial of Moonbane Cure.I had made it for Alexander Reed, my mate, the Alpha-heir of Silver Moon Pack, and the man whose life had been tied to my blood for the past three years.Three years ago, rogue wolves tore into his wolf core and poisoned him so badly that every healer in the pack said he would not survive the next Blood Moon. I was the only one who refused to let him

**Chapter 3**Caleb called me from Moon Hall ten minutes later.I answered on speaker while tightening the bandage around my palm. In the background, I heard shouting, silver chains dragging across stone, and Alexander’s wolf growling so low that the sound vibrated through the bond.“Scarlett,” Caleb said, his voice tense, “Alexander has entered full Blood Moon relapse. Two guards are injured. Sarah refuses to sign the emergency bill. She says you’re his mate and you have no right to charge him.”I almost laughed.Of course she did.“Put her on,” I said.A second later, Sarah’s sharp voice filled the room. “Scarlett, this is cruel even for you. Alexander is suffering. Whatever happened with Victoria, you can’t abandon your mate on a Blood Moon.”I looked at the red moon outside the window. “He said he didn’t need me.”“He was angry.”“He was holding another woman.”“He was saving her life.”“He gave her my cure.”Sarah breathed hard through the line. “You are his mate. Your duty is to

**Chapter 5**Victoria stopped screaming the moment the Council chamber doors closed behind her.That was the first thing I noticed.Through the glass-veined doors, I could still see her silhouette between the two guards. Her shoulders stopped shaking. Her head lifted. The fragile, terrified woman who had been clinging to Alexander in the corridor vanished so quickly it almost felt like watching someone remove a mask.Alexander saw it too.His face went blank for half a second.Then the detection array lit beneath Victoria’s feet.Red light climbed her body, burning through the thin silk of my robe and revealing the mark below her collarbone. It spread wider this time, dark lines coiling under her skin like a brand that had been buried too long. Victoria threw her head back with a cry, but the sound was different now. Not weak. Angry.Daniel stood beside the chamber doors, reading the report as it appeared on his tablet.“Rogue-pack binding confirmed,” he said. “Black Thorn origin. Co

**Chapter 7**The first patient of the morning was a border guard with claw marks across his shoulder.He looked startled when I stepped into the treatment room. For a moment, his gaze dropped to the fresh bandage around my palm, then quickly lifted again.“Chief Healer,” he said, awkward and respectful in a way most warriors had never been with me before.I knew why.By sunrise, the entire pack knew what had happened in the Council building. Alexander Reed had lost his mate bond, his Alpha-heir status, and the blood therapy that had kept his wolf core stable for three years. Victoria Lane had been exposed as a Black Thorn rogue-pack asset. The Reed family accounts had been frozen. Every secret they had buried under pride, wealth, and my silence was now lying open for the pack to see.I pulled on clean gloves. “Sit down.”The guard obeyed at once.As I cleaned his wound, he kept stealing glances at me, like he wanted to speak but did not know how. Finally, he said, “I was in Moon Hall

**Chapter 9**The recording spread through the Council faster than any official notice could.By morning, no one was pretending Alexander had only been deceived by Victoria. The words were too clear.She always comes back to me.I listened to that sentence once more before the hearing, not because I needed to hurt myself again, but because I wanted to remember exactly what kind of man I was walking away from.In the Council chamber, Alexander sat at the center of the judgment circle. He looked worse than the night before. His face was pale, his lips dry, and dark veins still crawled faintly beneath the skin at his throat. Without my blood therapy, his wolf core was struggling to hold its shape.He lifted his head when I entered.For one second, his gaze dropped to my throat, my wrists, my bandaged palm. Old instinct moved through his face. The Blood Moon was over, but his wolf still remembered where comfort used to be.I stopped outside the circle.Daniel stood beside the elders. “Sca