Third person pov

Those mesmerizing red eyes intimidated Taehyung a lot. He immediately took a step back, whimpering in submission and bowing his head.

It was his mate's wolf in front of him at the moment.

He wondered if the wolf also doesn't recognize him as his mate like the human; he hoped it wasn't like that. But at the moment, the only thing he wanted to do was fall on his knees and completely submit to the elder who was spreading his dominant pheromones.

He kept unconsciously taking short steps backwards, away from him.

Jungkook's wolf growled lowly, threateningly, baring his canines when Taehyung was going to take another step backwards.

Taehyung froze abruptly. He was afraid of what was going to happen next. 

What if the wolf gets mad at him for interfering with his business? Jungkook had clearly told him not to do it.

But what actually happened made him stop breathing and heart beat really fast. It was similar to the time when he had first seen Jungkook. Similar to the time when Venus, his wolf had told him that the elder was his mate.

Jungkook's wolf first let go of the glass piece which fell on the floor and then took a step forward, towards him, and in the softest way, he cupped his cheeks. 

Taehyung's breath hitched when he felt the very unfamiliar tingles spread his body.

It was the first time he had skin contact with his mate, and the touch really made him want to scream and yell in joy. 

He didn't care that the blood from Jungkook's hand was getting smeared on his cheeks.

He looked up hesitantly, breath hitching when he sees Jungkook's wolf looking back at him with so much longing and softness.

"Mate?" He asked and Taehyung lets out a sob, crying now. Finally, finally, he felt like everything would get better from now. 

Jungkook's wolf realized that he was his mate; what more did he even need?

He felt the extremely powerful and muscular arms wrap around his waist, his legs sweeping off the floor when Oberon, Jungkook's wolf, carried him and leaned down to nose on his neck

Taehyung didn't know how to feel. This is what he wanted for so many years--to be in the protective arms of his loving mate--he could swear that he couldn't be any happier. 

He would finally get the love he's striving for.

He hesitantly lifted his arms up and let his fingers run through his mate's hair. He felt ecstatic. He wanted this moment to last forever; he wanted to remain happy like how he is now, forever.

They remained in that position for a while. Oberon kept nosing him greedily almost like he was desperately trying to find something in his scent. 

Taehyung frowned when he felt the elder's jaw clench against his shoulder suddenly.

"You're not her," Jungkook's wolf growled. Taehyung suddenly grew tense, frowning.

Her? Who?

"You're not her!" This time the wolf yelled and pushed him away from himself. Taehyung crashed on the floor and let out a yelp, looking back at Oberon with wide confused eyes.

Oberon's hands twitched, veins near his forehead protruding out. He wasn't calm or collected anymore but seemingly losing his mind and every bit of sanity in him. 

Taehyung almost let of a scream when Oberon punched the wall to bring himself back to his right state of mind, to see the truth, the reality. 

Tears were streaming down the trueblood's red and troubled face. Oberon let out a small gasp as he held his heart, stumbling to the floor almost like he was hit by someone in his torso. 

Taehyung was more than just scared now. He scooted back from the trueblood who got back to his wobbling feet as he hit his hand on the table again. 

Taehyung was sobbing, crying in fear. What he was seeing was making him burn in the flames of trepidation. Oberon seemed so close to hitting Taehyung that it made his heart drop every time the wolf raised his hand and hit the table or the wall. 

Oberon just seemed so furious that Taehyung could only see the way the wolf hit the things beside him, like threateningly Taehyung that he would be the one who will be hit by him if he dared to do anything. 

The trueblood's tears and desperate need to come back to reality when unnoticed by Taehyung.  

Everything was so good a while ago... why does it always happen that happiness lasts shorter than sadness? Why did he always just get a glimpse of happiness before the sadness came back?

 It made him feel like the glimpse of happiness he got only made him sadder because he can never feel happy for long.

"You. Are. Not. Her." Taehyung gulped at the hatred in the voice. His voice wasn't sweet anymore. 

It was rather hard and harsh. He saw the tense muscles of the man, his posture angry, with gritted teeth and hard eyes now towards him.

Oberon looked like the strongest and weakest man at the same time. 

Something so distant was present in his eyes that Taehyung wanted to go to him and hug him, able to see how fucking vulnerable the wolf was even when he was standing there and glaring at him like the strongest man that existed. 

But all Taehyung could think about was the fact that the trueblood was speaking about someone else. 

Her. 

How was this wolf able to talk about someone else in front of him? Who was this girl's whose name his mate was speaking? 

"W-who?" Taehyung stuttered, because, well, he wanted to know who his mate was talking about.

It hurt. 

Pain would be too small of a word to describe his feelings. 

"Shut up!" Oberon yelled making Taehyung flinch.

"You can never be like her, so don't even try! You get it, omega?!" He yelled on his face, and Taehyung could only submissively flinch and hug himself as he nods. 

He couldn't go against a angry trueblood, his mate, to be more specific. The uneasiness flooded in him when he thought about Oberon hitting him. 

This wasn't right. 

He wasn't supposed to be feared of Oberon, feared that he would hit. This isn't what being mates is. 

His mate was supposed to protect, not make him scared. 

This was nothing less than mental torture. Seeing him hurt himself and getting scared of being hit by him...

This was mental abuse. 

And the way he took the name of a girl again and again when he was fated to him, knowing that he is his mate, was more than just hurting. 

It made him feel that he wasn't worth Jungkook. This bond was holding him down and tearing him apart, nothing else. There was no feelings of love. 

Emotional abuse. 

He was blind to not see the clear emotions in the wolf's eyes. Taehyung was too desperate, being swallowed by the black hole of hate and pain that he didn't see that the wolf was also crying. 

He didn't see that there was something in Oberon that flickered for a moment before he went back to baring his teeth and growling in anger. 

The wolf seemed to be feeling astonishingly strong longing and pain which neither Taehyung could comprehend nor ever understand. 

His whimpers and sniffles were the only things that were heard for a while. He was still looking deep into those red eyes which, after a moment, turned pitch dark, tears still glistening in them.

A look of pure confusion spread through Jungkook's face as he frowned seeing the younger on the ground. He internally panicked when he saw the blood smeared on Taehyung's face.

Did my wolf hurt him? He asks himself but quickly left a deep breath of relief when he realized that the blood was from his own bleeding palm.

"What're you doing here?" He asks, trying to act like he knew everything that happened between his wolf and the omega, though he knew nothing.

He didn't know anything. 

He didn't know what Oberon just told or did to Taehyung. 

He just didn't know. 

Taehyung only whimpers and quickly stood back on his feet. His body shook lightly, head still bowed in submission.

"Didn't I tell you not to interfere in my business?" Jungkook asks bluntly, genuinely concerned, distressed because his wolf could've actually hurt him. Taehyung didn't see the worry but saw the rudeness of his for talking to his mate like this. 

What kind of person was he for not acknowledging his mate? And what the defect in Taehyung? Why couldn't the older love him back? 

Why was he being asked to mind his own business when mates were supposed to share everything, emotions, situation, and all other things? 

On the other hand, Jungkook didn't know what happened but knew it wasn't good. Even so, things could've been worse. 

What would he have done if his wolf did hit him? He knew very well that even a hit from his wolf could end up hurting the weak omega way too badly. 

This is was one of the minor reason he asked the boy to stay away, and the omega had gone against him by coming to his room. 

What would Jungkook do if had gotten hurt? The thought of Taehyung being hurt because of his wolf made his heart sink. 

Oberon had stopped it... why again? Jungkook thinks. More importantly, w-why did I see another hallucination today? 

He recollected how he was peacefully laying down, deep in thought when he saw another hallucination and grew extremely perplexed, worried and a huge mix of emotions which he couldn't even understand. 

A few moments later, his vision turned black, his wolf taking over and probably attacking the hallucination with the glass which was placed on the bedside table. Why he did that? Jungkook didn't know.

Well, he didn't know most of the things related to his own other half. 

He assumed that Taehyung had come from his room to see what the commotion was about and his startled wolf would have pushed him away because he hadn't probably known that they were joined by someone else in their house. 

He grew concerned. What if Oberon really does dislike Taehyung and hit him purposely? 

His heart fell.  

Taehyung only sniffles and whimpers. He was looking down all the while and didn't notice the way Jungkook's hard eyes softened after seeing his tears.

"Go out," Jungkook's voice was calm and emotionless, and Taehyung didn't need to be told twice before he ran out of the room, not stopping until he reached his own room.

He slammed the door shut and let himself fall right before the door, sobbing.

His mate had pushed him away from himself and thrown him on the floor, but that wasn't the thing he was sad or hurt about. That wasn't the reason he was crying.

He recollected the harsh way Oberon had hit the walls and yelled at him. 

What hurt more at this moment was...

his mate was talking about someone else. That he compared him to someone else and told him that he can't be like her.

Does he love someone else?

But he belongs to me! I'm his mate!

I should tell him that I'm the one he is fated to and demand him to love me--

No. That's just so stupid. Why would I want someone to love me because I'm fated with them?

I want him to fall for me. Mate bond or not I want him to love me and only me.

No one can love him more than I do. No one. I'll make sure he knows that. I'll make sure he realizes how much I love and care for him.

No one else's love can beat my years of love for him.

But if he still doesn't love me, then...

He cried to sleep again; it had become such a normal thing for him now. 

He wished, just wished that Jungkook chose him over anybody else because he needed the elder more than anybody else did.

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