Semua Bab My Mate Gave My Life-Saving Cure to His Ex: Bab 11 - Bab 20

**Chapter 11**The clinic was full by noon.Not because the pack had suddenly become sicker overnight, but because people finally understood that the Reed family no longer stood between them and my time. For years, Alexander’s relapses, Sarah’s medicine, Emma’s training injuries, and every Reed emergency had pushed other patients down the list. No one had complained openly. The Reeds were too powerful, and I had been too willing to bear the cost quietly.Now the waiting room was packed with border guards, young wolves, elderly pack members, and two mothers holding feverish children. Caleb stood at the front desk, moving faster than I had ever seen him.When I entered, the room fell silent.I did not like it.Respect was useful. Reverence was not. Reverence turned people into symbols, and I had spent too long being one thing for everyone else: Alexander’s mate, Reed family healer, the woman who never said no.“Patients will be seen by urgency,” I said. “If you are here to gossip, leave

Chapter 13For a moment, no one in the treatment room spoke.Alexander was still half-reclined on the examination bed, pale from the silver-root procedure, black veins fading slowly beneath his skin. Caleb stood beside the monitor with a used syringe in his gloved hand. Daniel remained at the door, his face grim.Someone from the Reed family.The words sat in the air like poison.Alexander tried to sit up. The monitor immediately beeped in warning.Caleb pressed a hand toward him, not touching, but firm. “Don’t move.”Alexander ignored him. His eyes stayed on Daniel. “Who?”Daniel’s jaw tightened. “Victoria refused to give a name unless the Council reduces her border sentence.”“Of course she did,” I said.Victoria never gave anything for free. Not tears. Not truth. Not even betrayal.Alexander looked at me. “You think she’s lying?”“I think she’s using the last weapon she has.”“But it could be true.”Yes.That was the worst part.Sarah had wanted me useful, quiet, and forgiving. Emm

Chapter 15The black wolf was gone before the guards reached the trees.Only its scent remained.Daniel crouched near the edge of the road, touching two fingers to the snow-dusted ground. His face hardened. “Black Thorn.”Caleb stood behind me with a medical bag still in his hand. He had been locking the clinic when I saw the wolf outside my office window. Now his face was pale, but he did not panic.“How did they get this close?” he asked.Daniel rose. “They have had Reed access codes for years. If Emma gave Victoria old patrol schedules, Black Thorn may know more about our blind spots than we do.”The words settled over the clinic like frost.For years, I had thought the danger was inside Moon Hall: Alexander’s indifference, Victoria’s lies, Sarah’s quiet resentment, Emma’s jealousy. Now the shape of the threat was changing. Black Thorn had not only stolen contracts. They had watched us. Studied us. Waited until the Reed family broke itself open.Daniel turned to me. “You should sta

Chapter 17The Council hall erupted.Elder Marlow’s face did not change at first. That was what made him frightening. Every other elder shifted, whispered, or stared. Marlow only sat there with his hands folded over his cane, as if a chained Black Thorn rogue had not just accused him in front of the entire hall.Daniel drew his blade. “Speak clearly.”The rogue laughed. “I thought wolves valued ceremony.”Daniel’s blade touched his throat. “Try me.”The rogue’s smile faded just enough. “Marlow has been selling Reed information to Black Thorn for years. Patrol gaps. old access codes, mine routes, medical schedules.” His eyes flicked toward Alexander. “Your attack three years ago was supposed to break the Reed heir, not kill him. A dead heir creates war. A broken heir creates dependence.”Alexander went still.I felt the meaning land before anyone said it.A broken Alexander needed treatment. A dependent Alexander made the Reed family weak. A desperate Reed family became easy to control

Chapter 19Marlow’s arrest changed the pack faster than Victoria’s banishment had.Victoria had been a scandal. A former lover, a rogue contract, a stolen mine agreement. The pack could understand that kind of betrayal because it had a face they already wanted to hate.Marlow was different.He had been law. Judgment. Tradition. The elder who approved punishments, sealed contracts, and spoke in the name of Silver Moon Pack. When his communication stone was decoded, it did not reveal one crime. It revealed years of rot.Patrol gaps sold to Black Thorn. Mine routes leaked. Border disputes encouraged. Medical reports copied. Family weaknesses traded like currency.And buried among them were my clinic files.Not just Alexander’s.Mine.Every late-night blood therapy session. Every rare herb order. Every private authorization. Every note I had written when I still believed confidentiality protected my patients instead of giving powerful men something to steal.I read the decoded report in m