Taehyung's POV

Jungkook lifted me from the counter and carried me to a back room.

It was a bathroom, I realized.

"You have a bathroom..?" I asked questioningly.

Jungkook snorted. "Of course I have a bathroom. We don't shit in corners like animals."

I rolled my eyes. "You know what I meant."

"Yes, I have a bathroom basically everywhere. Equipped with a bath and shower, as well. In this business, you find yourself...well, you find yourself covered in blood most days." He admitted. "It's better to wash up down here than in the main house, where we often have other guests who are unaware of our...business."

"I see." I muttered.

Jungkook set me down on the edge of the tub and started the water.

"So. I suppose we should learn a little bit more about each other, no?"

"Wow, never too late, huh?"

"Nope."

"I'm surprised you don't already know every single thing about me."

"I wanted you to tell me."

"I was the spoiled and bratty rich kid until life decided to hit me in the face with a brick and I couldn't be as carefree as I used to be. I had to finish school early, I went to college and got my degree, but I didn't think about the fact that I wasn't old enough to be trusted by most employers."

"What happened with your son?"

"Yoonbin?" I sighed, looking down.

Jungkook picked me up and placed me in the bathtub, climbing in as well and pulled my back into his chest.

"When I was sixteen I was...quite the party kid. Kind of like now, except I wasn't a manwhore. I actually...was a virgin. I didn't believe in one night stands or just fucking random people and dropping them. I wanted to find someone to love me and we'd share those special moments together."

I sighed again, running a hand through the water. "My family is very wealthy, and it attracted a lot of girls, as you might imagine. I tried looking at them as potential girlfriends, I wasn't mean to them or anything, but in the end all they wanted was my money.

"I was out on a date with a girl when I met Wendy. She was beautiful to me. Composed, graceful...she was exquisite, a pure and beautiful woman who I couldn't take my eyes off of.

"I took her out after that. We went on three dates and I can't say anything bad about them, they were perfect.

"But on the fourth date I started noticing something about Wendy. She decided to go to a bar, and she looked nervous all night. She had excused herself to go to the bathroom about five times and just when I was about to tell her we should leave, she said that we should have one more drink.

"She insisted that this one be an alcoholic beverage for me, this time. I was underage and I didn't like alcohol, but I guess me being younger and her being the perfect older woman she was to me, I buckled under the pressure.

"So I took the drink she offered me. She'd spiked it, though. I didn't find out about that until the next morning when I woke up to her wrapped around me, both of us naked my bed.

"I'd immediately broken up with her. I was heartbroken, I had really thought I'd found someone who looked past the money and saw me. Someone who was genuine and cared about me.

"Wendy disappeared for about three months. I finally saw her again, on one of my escapades to a bar."

"You started drinking one night stand after that?"

"She made me feel like a slut." I laughed quietly. "Different, but she used me, and it hurt me badly. I felt...well I guess I still feel like if she used me then anybody can use me, and I'll use them. Nobody really cares about feelings, just about money and those fleeting moments of pleasure you'll get from a good fuck."

Jungkook was silent behind me. "Anyway, when I saw her, she was already high. She still wanted more, so she approached me and demanded money for some drugs. I refused, of course.

"She was wearing really tight clothing. I noticed the hump right away and freaked out.

"I wasn't heartless. I knew she was pregnant and that being high was the worst thing she could've done. Even if it wasn't mine, I still wasn't going to let her kill the child. So I forced her home with me and tied her to the bed, so she couldn't run away. I was young, I panicked.

"The next day she was going through withdrawal and she told me the child was mine. I would've checked her into rehab somewhere, but finding it it was mine...well it changed the game quite a bit. I wasn't able to think straight and I had no one I trusted to confide in...Jimin was studying abroad at the time.

"So I kept her there, so that she couldn't run off and get high, hurt the child. I'd managed to convince my parents that I wanted an apartment of my own, and they got me one, and I kept her there. When she went into labor I took her to the hospital.

"She told them how I kidnapped her and kept her against her will for six months. I was arrested and there was a huge trial and everything. I was let go with some community service hours due my parents money and the fact that I was just a kid.

"I wanted custody of Yoonbin. I knew that Wendy was a drug addict by then, and I knew that six months without it wouldn't mean anything to her. I finished highschool and college as fast as I could. My parents paid for it all, but they were so mad at me, so ashamed.

"They said they'd monetarily support me, as they understood it wasn't entirely my fault. But I can't ever go and see them, I don't think they can look at my face and not remember everything that happened.

"However after a year, Wendy started demanding more money. I said fine, and I gave it to her. But when she demanded more and more, I said no. I wasn't going to leech off of my parents more than I had to.

"But she...she started threatening the well being of Yoonbin. He was born deaf, a birth defect from the first three months the pregnancy. She'd leave him at my home when she knew I wasn't there and he'd sit there for hours, crying his eyes out, scared and alone.

"I had to...I still have to give her more and more, whatever the fuck she wants. I've tried getting custody for a couple of years now, but it's always the same. I need a job. I'm just some irresponsible kid."

I looked down at my hands.

Jungkook didn't say anything. But I felt a pair of lips on the back my head. I relaxed slightly, loving how gentle he was being.

Maybe I could get used to this.