Ex-Mate Wants Me Back

Seraphina was trapped under an avalanche.She was dying.

But her Alpha, Mortimer, was watching the aurora with his childhood friend, Vivian.

He had promised to give Seraphina a full mate mark that day.

Instead, he left her to die in the sudden avalanche.

“Vivian was kidnapped by rogues. I have to save her.I’ll come back for you after I rescue her.”

But Alpha Mortimer never came back.

She had loved him silently for ten years.That was why she agreed to their three-year contract marriage.

But under the cold snow, her ten-year love died with the ice.

When their contract ended, Mortimer held out a new one.

“My Luna, sign this. It lasts a hundred years.”

He looked at her with hope.But Seraphina only stared calmly.

She pushed the contract back.

“I won’t renew.”

When Mortimer finally learned she almost died that day,he realized it was too late.

He had lost her forever.

Seraphina's POV

"Mortimer, I did some digging. We can actually hike the Glacier Forest. And..."

I looked up at him, burying half my face in my thick wool scarf, my eyes locked onto Alpha Mortimer. "The rangers say if we take this trail, we'll get a front-row seat to the Blood Moon. It only happens once every twenty years."

I'm a healer back at the center, and I'd pulled a string of brutal night shifts just so I could clear my schedule for this trip.

Mortimer managed to carve out two weeks to join me here in Alaska.

Honestly? I was hoping this would be the spark our dying relationship needed.

"Let's try the trail tomorrow, okay?" As I spoke, my breath puffed out in a thick white cloud, and tiny ice crystals clung to my lashes.

Since our "political alliance" of a mating started three years ago, I'd always played the part of the perfect, poised Luna. I'd never let him see this side of me—the side that actually gets excited about things.

He reached out, tucking a stray hair behind my ear, and his usual icy vibe finally thawed. A small smile tugged at his lips. "Okay."

His golden eyes glowed with an intensity that almost felt... real.

"Seraphina," he murmured, leaning down until his warm breath grazed my neck, sending a literal shiver down my spine. "Our wedding three years ago was so rushed. It was just a cold ceremony. I never gave you a real promise, a mate's promise. It wasn't fair to you."

I looked into his eyes, seeing what looked like genuine regret, and my heart skipped a beat.

He took my hand, pressing his lips to my knuckles. His voice was low and husky. "Tonight, when the moon turns red, I'm going to make it up to you. I'm giving you the ceremony you deserve."

Legend said that if an Alpha marks his mate under a Blood Moon, the mating bond becomes unbreakable. Permanently blessed.

"I want you to be my Luna for real, Seraphina."

At the heat of his touch,