A Flare in the Alaskan Night

One pill.
That’s all it took for my mate, Alpha Felix, to leave me for dead in the Alaskan wilderness.
His childhood sweetheart wanted it, and I refused.
"Well, well, You're a famous wildlife photographer. Let's see how you survive out here in the wild."
My mate sneered from his seat in the SUV.
"You let her suffer for three days, so you can get a taste of it yourself."
I climbed the tallest fir tree, pulled out a flare gun, and fired it straight into the sky.
My mate laughed mockingly. "You don't actually think someone other than me will come to save you, do you?"
However...
He came.