Claimed by The Moon (previously titled Alpha Titus)

Chapter 37

Book #1 - this book - will be available on Wattpad, but the rest of the series will only be available on Ream and Amazon Kindle.

This book ends on a cliffhanger that leads to part 2 of this book, titled Beta Enzo. Which is currently serializing on REAM - link in my Bio❤️

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TITUS ||

I was torn. Torn of whose hospital room I should be in. My pup's or my mate's. I hadn't known either of them for very long, but which one held precedence over the other?

I hadn't put my hands on Sebastian, but he was severely injured because of Mell's rage. While Mell was severely injured due to my unchecked rage.

While Enzo and I wait for the guys and Kano to return with the pups and Halcadyth in two days time, I was stuck in this weird state of guilt, fear and anxiety.

I've tried to replay the events of the previous day. The events that caused me to put my hands on my mate and damn near kill him.

That wasn't my intention. I would never outright put my hands on him and cause damage like that. It's part of the reason why I allowed Gemini to punish him and I didn't do it myself.

Now how do I move past this? How do I make this up to Romello? How do I gain my mate's favor back after such a deep rooted betrayal?

I was on a thin rope with Romello as is and now - now I was teetering off the damn thing, plummeting to the severing of our bond.

I'd tried to keep myself busy today before resigning to Enzo's commands and coming to the hospital. Staying busy helped to keep your mind off the hurt and my mind off the pain.

But now, standing here in the hallway, my eyes shifting between both doors, I didn't know what to do. Who to go to.

Glancing in my pup's room, I see Romello's parents by his bedside along with Ryker, Bryce and Kyle.

I can't help but think that was strategic. To force me to choose Mell's room because when I glanced inside, I only see Enzo and Sienna at his bedside when I knew the others should be there too.

They barely knew my pup. They knew Mell. They loved Mell. Yet here they are, sitting in Sebastian's hospital room and not my mate's.

Gemini creeps forward with me, giving me an offputting gentle nudge towards Romello's room.

With a deep breath, I turn the doorknob and open the door only for Enzo to snap his head in my direction. His barred canines recede when he sees me, but the tension in his body doesn't. He's still pissed with me. That much was clear.

A grumbled growls comes from my Beta when he scoots over and allows me to take the seat next to him, the one closest to the head of my mate's bed.

When I take a seat, my eyes scan his body. My own tensing when I see the littered bruises, scraps and cuts that lay there, but those are nothing compared to the purple and blue hand prints I see on his neck.

I swallow hard seeing that and no matter what I do to fight them, the tears come forward anyways. I don't let them fall but they do stay there. Swimming in the pools of my eyes and the deep rooted ache that burns within my heart for harming my mate in such a way.

My plan was to come here and ask him about his night terrors, remembering what Enzo said in the Conference room to the guys and Kano. I wanted to ask him what happened for myself, something I should have done before attacking him. I should have fought Gemini a little harder. I should have held onto that wolfsbane that I had a few hours prior at the Tri-squad camp and taken it before he could shift.