Sage used her own blood to save her dying Alpha husband Kane, yet he thanked another woman in front of the entire world for "never leaving his side."
Sage, a top healer, drew out the venom with her blood three times, secretly carried his twins, and kept vigil for forty-one nights; that other woman visited only twice—once with photographers, once with a PR gift basket.
On the Blood Moon night, Kane was about to name his "true Luna." Sage wore the gray dress he'd chosen and stood at the back—but before five hundred wolves, she spoke the words no one had dared for a thousand years: "I reject you."
The bond shattered; she left alone. Six months later, the twins were born early, and their Alpha-born power shook three territories. But Sage didn't retreat. She rebuilt her career with her children, became head of surgery, and carved her own name back onto her miracle.
An even deadlier truth emerged: the ambush had been orchestrated by the very woman he thanked. Kane personally handed over the evidence to the Moon Council, gave up all his shares and succession rights, withdrew his paternity claim, and only said: "What I owe you can never be repaid."
Sage left him with these words: "I spent five years orbiting a man who convinced me I was the moon—only to discover I had been the sun all along."
Under the Blood Moon, she rejected him; after the Blood Moon, she reclaimed the world.
