Claimed by The Moon (previously titled Alpha Titus)

Chapter 17

TITUS ||

Leading Enzo and Romello to my car, I carefully help my mate into the backseat while Enzo climbs in the passenger seat and closes the door, running over to the drivers side, I slide in and quickly glance over to see Enzo glaring at Romello in the rear view mirror.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" - I ask through our pack link while I reach for my keys that I dropped in the footwell.

And instead of answering me, Enzo growls. "I know because I was mated to a straight wolf and rejected him because I thought he wouldn't accept me but then he found his second chance mate and it turns out, that mate was also a man and that mate that I thought wouldn't accept me because I was a man, accepted his second chance mate with open arms, so I totally fucked up and now I'm miserable."

Hearing Enzo's weird, random ass admission, I gasp as I grab my car keys, whipping my head in his direction and studying his now averting eyes.

He did what?

"Who the fuck did he reject?" It better not have been us, if it was, I'm ripping that emotional fucker a new asshole." - Gemini growls, pushing so far forward, he was accidentally forcing the shift.

"Why the hell would it have been us?" - I ask just as confused.

"I don't know, but it just seems like it could have been, we've always been abnormally attached to Enzo and Kraven and it would explain a lot of shit."

"I don't feel a bond with Enzo like that, Gemini, so calm down, I don't feel the tingles or the sparks or a soul tie like we feel like Romello." - I tell him, pretty damn sure that I was right.

"The effects of a one sided rejected bond are different than a solidified bond. We would feel something for Enzo if you didn't accept the rejection." - With that, Gemini retreats into the shadows but never fully fades away as he watches Enzo through my eyes, his anger rippling through my veins.

Tightening my grip around the steering wheel to get ahold on my wolf and his bullshit, I open my mouth to say something but when I hear Mell groan in the backseat, I force my attention to pulling out of the parking lot, making a mental note to bring this shit up once we get Mell fully healed.

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Helping Mell from the backseat and supporting his weight as we traveled past my borders, I couldn't help but send suspicious glares in Enzo's direction as Gemini's words rooted to the forefront of my mind.

Everything would make sense if it were us that Enzo rejected. How connected I feel to him, how much he affects me, how much his scent calms me, how oddly close we are.

"Fudging poptarts," Mell groans as we get closer to the lavender field right outside of our pack border, I abandon all thoughts of Enzo and who he rejected in his past and focusing on helping my mate.

I chose to bring him to the Lavender Field because the essence of these flowers has been known to have calming and healing effects to it, so as much as I wanted to trust what Mathias and Malachi said about the Moon healing Romello's leg, I just didn't want to put all of my faith in something that seemed so bizarre.

Carefully setting him down in the clear patch of grass, surrounding by the lavender flowers, I sit down on one side of Mell while Enzo sits on the other.

I was still confused as to why my presence as well as Enzo's needed to be apart of this exchange of energy, but here we are.

The light of the Full Moon shining down on us, I breathe in deeply as Enzo does the same, the field of the flowers doing their jobs and calming the beasts within as we wait for Mell's leg to heal.