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20| " A raunchy war-of tug." 

"Do you know what my dreams are?" Taehyung mumbled, making Nina's body straightened as if someone had nestled a rod in the length of her spine, she recoiled by the tremor of shock.

He sounded like his usual self or that he pretend to be with the world. Jaunty, dominating and salacious, he embodied this authentic self. Nina always used to wish that he would stay like this. As much as she would like to see his easy-going personality, and believe that it was his real self, she was aware that it was artificial, a mask that he wore to convince everyone around him that he carries kindness in blood.

Kind and Taehyung? The biggest lie of the century.

Nina could see what no one could see, or it should be said that Taehyung only permitted her to see that vicious side of him, after all, she knew him well. 

Nina fluttered her lashes, the slender curve of her throat bobbed for a thick gulp as every nerve of Nina's body clapped out with the freight of his smokey voice, it chewed her insides like a never-ending disease.

"Are your dreams about me?" Nina could hear her own voice fading, she blurted out in a trance. Those golden eyes had crucified her, bewitch her without her will. It was almost disturbing to think about the unseen power he had had over her. 

The spark of curiosity in her honeyed tone coiled his lips for a wicked smirk to shudder her to the core.

"They are especially about you, Red. I can define it in detail, I wonder if you can handle it. It's kinda sloppy, you will call me a foul-mouthed bastard." His voice roughened with the brew of lewd motives, she could sense it so clearly. Taehyung wasn't touching her, but every inch of her body felt like burning as if he had settled a bunch of tiny, charred coals around her skin and left her to turn into ashes. Ruined ashes in his wake.

Why was Nina trembling? Why were her breaths spiking her chest? Why was she unable to hold her own body's weight? 

Oh, she knew why— because of him being so intimately close to her. She hated this fatal closeness, it always boggled her mind with craving and abandoned her heart into tatters.

"I saw you every night in my dreams, on my bed, tying in the bedpost, appearing like a naked, sexy maiden at my mercy." Nina's eyes wavered against his lucious gaze, her ruddy lips trembled and parted to release rushing breaths that Taehyung wanted to swallow deep into his lungs. 

The maddening glint in Taehyung's eyes intensified when he found her back pressing against the wall, Nina gasped when he imprisoned her under his arms. 

"There are more." Taehyung growled like a smug wolf, he was sounding so unforgivingly honest without any trace of animosity. His neck bowed closer to her, invading her space, tickling the minor muscles of her mouth as Nina's toes curled by the sensation forming around her navel and trickling down to clench her pussy.

"I saw your red, red hair falling over your bare, soft breasts." Taehyung picked the piece of strands of her hair and kissed it. A needy, giddy bubble shuffled her veins as she resisted an urge to fall over him. Her knees felt weak, unable to carry her own weight. 

So absurd, so absurd to face the nasty longings that he wielded for her without any guilt. Nina wanted to slap herself, a tight slap until her ears began ringing. What was she doing? What kind of nasty curiosity was there to peek in his fairly nasty thoughts? She shouldn't listen to him, not even like it. But God helps her, she liked every damn word shaping out of his evil mouth that she suddenly wanted to savour, kiss and bite hard until the delectable flesh cracked and oozed blood to coat her tongue. 

Tasting his blood? 

What kind of Vampire-ish urge was it? 

Nina was in the hollow of shock, traumatised even. Only this man could shuffle her steady brain with crazy ideas. 

"Your thighs sensually, obscenely spread wide to take every inch of my cock like a good girl that you are, that you were always for me." Taehyung husked, he let her hair go and the next thing she knew his palm wrapped around her throat, finger splaying the length of her neck. The grip wasn't harsh, he wasn't choking her but it was a deliciously dominative gesture to sear the lid of her vivid greed. The greed that she had for him, which Nina was trying to seal within some private, solitary chamber of her chest.

"And bit by bit, I watch you prettily fall to pieces around me, shattering beneath me while I pound the fuck out of your dripping pussy like some savage, rabid animal. Well, it's always fun to be an animal, fun to hunt." Taehyung tilted her face up by the grasp of her throat, Nina's mouth parted and closed with no trace of a comeback, the back of her head limply pressed against the wall. 

Nina's fingers palpitate with the need to grab the big chunk of his silken hair and haul him closer to smash their mouth for a hungry kiss, devouring him till the end. 

This was too much, her resistance was slipping through the gap of her fingers, she had to grasp it before she collapsed in the pit of her ruin. The sexual war-of tug between them was intense beyond words, it could be her demise. 

"You should not dream about any of these. Not especially for the woman who you can't have. Your dreams are purely improper." Nina paused, her throat was dry as a dessert. She flicked her darkening eyes at the male who hummed, feasting her mouth with his gaze while tilting his steel-cut jaw.

"And it outrages me." The lie twirled out of her mouth like a silken ribbon, soft and smooth, widening Taehyung's feline grin. 

"I hate to admit but your outrage tempts me, princess. Even tame me." He wasn't being flirty, whatever he confessed, it was genuine but not less attractive either. A surprise intake of sigh resembling a high pitched, husky moan graced out between her teeth when he traced his tongue in the fine line of her jaw and an igniting craving pierced her throat by the way he gave her a slight choke, his witchery eyes honed at her face. 

Those amusing, golden hues were looming around her like a cloud of thick smoke as if reading her hushed up desires that she never uttered herself in her hazy loneliness. He gave her a look as if he knew that his vile words formed a hot fluid between her legs as if he knew that she would come in a ripple here and there under his fingers— as if he knew that every cell of her body was smothering against him.

Taehyung's chest grazed against her achy nipples, hardening like pebbles as he pressed his hips to hers. His dick jerking against her stomach, hard and hot. It took everything for Nina to not grind and roll against him to ameliorate the raunchy ache that both were going through in their private places. A guttural grunt clogged Taehyung's mouth and Nina whimpered out as an answer.

"I don't want to tame you, don't want to belong to you, not even in your dreams." Her own heartfelt large under her chest, ballooning around her rib cage and their heated bodies flush against each other.

"Oh?"  Her declaration was chucklesome for him, he flexed his fingers back and let her throat go but didn't step back.

How could you hate someone but still crave them with crazed starvation? How could you want to chase away from someone but still want to be engulfed by their frenzied aura? How could you want to kill someone but still wants to fuck them, especially by fisting and pulling their hair during sex? Crazy, absolutely crazy. 

Taehyung was going through a very drastic dilemma. Sometimes he considered himself a freak, an addict of a particular drug name, Nina wang.

Taehyung had no idea what he would do with this vivacious woman. Chase her, capture her, marry her or hurt her but one thing he knew he would surely fuck her until he was the only thing that she would maddeningly desire until her last breath. Nina was too good for him and she didn't deserve his wretched game but he couldn't lower his guards down. This marriage was important, he couldn't let her go.

" That night, you thought you were dreaming right? Like seriously Wang? I felt your body in the fire. I felt your heart racing against mine. I made you cum so harder that you watched stars above your head and you thought you were dreaming? My hand wandered every inch of your naked body. I toyed with your tits. I fingered you so hard and you thought you were dreaming—" Nina pushed him away by bracing her palm over his chest as he stumbled back, her eyes widened beyond capacity as she covered her mouth with her palm. 

"You shameless prick!" Nina screeched, her mortified voice reverberated the walls of his house. The similar shade of her hair gorgeously slinked over the apple of her pale cheeks as she stomped toward the couch and grabbed a black cushion and threw it in his direction.

"I'm just letting you know! Why so offended? Didn't you let me enter your room, you had let me fuck you and I was inside you that night, whole fucking night." Taehyung dodged the cushion, bursting into fits of delirious laughter at her fuming self. 

"You idiot, stop mocking me!" Nina's cheeks were simmering red, she grabbed a big cushion and tossed it at him that went to hit his chest, but did not affect him.

"Even though you asked me to rip your panties off with my teeth." Nina choked in her saliva, her eyes were this close to leaping out of the sockets. The lewd images were sketching in her brain, she imagined him between her legs for the unholy move.

God, this man's mouth was so filthy, there wasn't a single fragment of shame in his face. Nina grabbed another pillow with gritted molars, she was squeezing it and imagining Taehyung's neck.

"And princess, don't you remember how you deepthroat kissed me and told me that you need my tongue between your legs, sucking your cunt, ow!" Taehyung's cheeky taut went on a halt when he splendidly got hit by the pillow, right across his face. Now, his superior nose was aching, it was Nina's target.

"Okay, this is painful." Taehyung scrunched his nose, his lips formed into a slight pout. For a second appearing cute in Nina's eyes, then she reminded herself that his reality was far from the word cute.

" Your lousy mouth can shut up now." Nina was tired of this whole ridiculous ordeal, she needed a shower, her bed, her cats and a romance book that can help her to escape this shitty world where the hades himself exist, aka Kim Taehyung. 

"I want to go home, let me go. My cats are alone." She frankly spoke, arching her brows by not getting any response from him. Taehyung index rubbed his left brow, the muscle of his jaw flicked as he walked toward her at mighty ease.

"Woah!" Nina blinked when he cupped her face, squeezing her cheeks to make her lips pucker out like a blowfish. Such a loving gesture, she sensed something fishy.

"I told my father about our marriage." Taehyung grinned, the excitement glimmering in his voice deceived the shadiness fogging his golden pools, they were as bitter and cold as a winter night, giving her frostbite.

"Call him and tell him again that he might find you in your own home, in the living room dead on this floor, and me in the prison." Nina whacked his hands away, a little harshly to leave a burn around his wrists yet that bastard didn't react, or maybe it never pained him.

"Come on, marry me. I'll make your life filled with happiness, romance and lots of orgasms." Oh, that blind the nation's flirtatious smirk would drive her crazy in sheer annoyance. Nina believed his promise about sweet, mind-bending orgasms, but romance and happiness? She would jump from a cliff but wouldn't believe his darn words.

When he caught a scowl awning her face, he burst into a stroke of cackles, an amiable smile crowning his lips. With that smile Taehyung could get whatever he wanted, he could get away from anything. He was quite tricky and a jerk. That's how Nina would describe Taehyung and he was the only person who could joke about serious matters.

"Don't you think we have spent enough time apart, my darling?" Taehyung slid his fingers in the side of her head and pushed her hair back, admiring the way her red strands rounded around his fingers. "I won't let you escape me again, red. I'll search every hole you will crawl under and will drag you back to me and after that, I'll make you regret running away from me." That suave smile turned into a possessive sneer, clamping her chest with a crude force.

This man was pure evil, toxic and filled with uncanny darkness. No, not just evil or toxic or darkness, he was deranged with no shred of ethics in his soul. Taehyung was difficult to understand, Nina couldn't even trust his smile, so dealing with him was another thing. He wasn't good for her health, for her sanity, for her heart— especially for her isolated heart. 

"I'm not going to crawl anywhere, not especially in your trap that you are trying to set. Don't worry I'll be here, in front of your eyes but I won't marry you. Ask me a gazillion times and my answer would be the same in crystal clear words. Learn to accept no as an answer, rich guy." Nina flashed him the same smile that he had flashed at her, that malicious one but fairly charming as she patted his shoulders.

"Fierce, aren't you? It makes you a gazillion times more attractive in my eyes." Taehyung tipped her face up by hooking his finger under her chin. He couldn't stop touching her, as if he needed to feel her closer to him as if he had to get the reassurance that she was with him. 

Kim Taehyung was everything that could make Nina run and hide somewhere in the deepest, darkest pit of earth, so why did she keep pulling back toward him?

"Such a charmer, aren't you? Sadly it won't work on me." Nina attempted to walk out of his intoxicating aureole but soon got yanked back by her wrist. Her body crashed against his and then in a blink she found herself carried by him in a bridal style. 

Flabbergasted Nina just could gawk at him carrying toward the couch, Taehyung sat down, settling her on his lap as if she was his favourite porcelain doll which he could handily carry around. 

"I did nothing wrong to you, Nina." Taehyung looked at her, his face was bare of his usual spitefulness. The flustered girl looked everywhere as if she had been thrown into a new world. His duality would be the end of her. 

"You idiot." Nina's nerves were racing, as she tried to sit up but got shushed down by the authoritative hum that Taehyung rained her with. 

"What do you mean?" Nina growled out, folding her arms across her chest. She wiggled against his broad figure to unwantedly perched on his lap as if she was used to sitting on his lap for years. "Just spit it out so I can go."

"I'm trying to say that I could do many wrong things to humiliate you." Nina snapped her head at him with alarming eyes, then she glanced at his arms that tightly snaked around her waist to hold her on the place before she could jab him and woosh away.

"Like making Jungkook kick you out of his office and follow your every attempt to apply for jobs and make every damn company convinced to not hire you by the help of my name. Make the landlord toss you out of your tiny apartment. Kidnap you and keep you here forever like a sadistic asshole, oh you are already kidnapped and on my lap. We are taking baby steps, I see." Taehyung's chest rumbled when the red-haired, might add fuming beauty shoved him away and went to stand, she didn't want to stay close to him.

"You have no ounce of humanity in your goddamn systems." The anger had gutted her, she could only see red. 

"I know, princess." Taehyung grinned, even proudly, watching her trembling head to toe due to anger, he rolled his eyes like some diva. 

"So what I was saying, yeah make your life hell. But I did nothing, all I want you to walk down the aisle with your lovely smile and kiss me in front of this dickhead world. Can't a man wish about something? don't be so cruel. I believe that you are very kind-hearted." Taehyung nudged his hands inside his pockets, his jaw ticking as he straightened his body posture. 

"Kind-hearted? indeed but not the fool to believe you." A tragic laugh ripped out of her chest, dropping the smile from his mouth. The way her chin trembled, and voice rattled, it indicated that she was this close to weeping. "You were a mistake that I intend to not repeat." It wasn't just some mere words that Taehyung would brush it off, it was like a rusty knife piercing his crude heart to mock him.

"Accept me for the sake of the memories that we created in the past." Was he begging? His eyes were hard and serious and— pleading. 

No, Nina would not get tricked by it. Kim Taehyung never begged. If something wasn't written in his fate or created for him then he would snatch it with his bare hands, he would cross all the lines to get his desired thing. 

It must have been one of his lousy games, and she didn't want to play along.

"I don't want to offend you Mr Kim but I've to laugh at your nonsense words." Nina mocked him, tears stung her eyes, festooning her lower lashes.

"You promised me that you would never leave me, no matter what." A restment lashed growl of Taehyung's ringed along the length of her bones, sustaining her outrage too.

"And you promised me that you would not give me any chance to leave you!" She jabbed an accusing index finger on his chest. "You shamed that promise first so I broke it off and I've no regrets." Her stubborn tears broke all bounds and wrecked free, rolling down to her chin. 

By the sight of her tears, Taehyung's anger faltered, even his hateful eyes softened. He didn't realize when he closed the distance between each other and cupped her face, almost tenderly between his palms. 

"My red." Taehyung breathed out against her lips, so fondly that smoothed the wrinkles of her bleeding heart. "You still haven't changed, always end up crying when you can't win an argument against me." He pressed their foreheads, urging her to shake her head against him. Nina clutched his shirt under her fingers for a brutal grip.

"I want to slap you." Nina sobbed, her shoulders trembling as he cracked up into a faint cluster of chuckles. She was adorable, and strangely he wanted to protect her from all the evil eyes, even himself. 

"Slap me if that makes you feel good." Taehyung left a long, lingering kiss on her cheekbone, kissing her tears away, kissing her pangs away. 

"Get out of my life, Taehyung. It will make me feel good." Nina scrutinized him through her blurred vision. She sensed his muscles tensing under her agile fingers and his jaw shifted to clench.  

"Everything is good without you. I'm good without you. Wanting you was my biggest mistake." Nina sniffed, her lower lip wobbling like her insides and Taehyung had an urge to lock his lips with hers to gulp her words down like a bitter pill. 

"I've no strength now. If this time you broke me, I don't know how I'll gather myself again. Do you hear me? you will never have me, I won't let you stomp all over me again." Nina's fingers loosened around his shirt, yet she couldn't collect herself to rip herself off from his body, basking in his warmth was the only thing that had eased her depleted soul.

"You are trying so hard to hate me, red, despite your eyes always betraying you, they still stare at me the way they used to do in the past. You know how ambitious I am, these fucking seven years I was restless for you, and now nothing can stop me from taking the rest of you, not even you." Nina baulked at those severe promises that ripped out the depth of Taehyung's heinous soul, his fingertips flushed against her skin.

"Ambitious and a horrible person, always playing dirty and never hesitate to show his hideousness!" Nina punched his chest with her delicate fists, not impacting him much. "I thought you would change, but no I was wrong, you have never changed, you just can't." She barked, her throat vibrating.

"Nothing changed, not me and not the madness that I have for you." Taehyung thought, resisting the impulse to let it out.

"Ah look who's talking?" He clicked his tongue, she gasped when he let her face go with a nudge, hovering over her fragile being like a hungry wolf, growling and snarling in ease. 

"You know what is horrible, Wang? Giving someone hope and reassurance and then leaving them alone, giving them something that they didn't ask for and then snatching the thing away from them when they got attached to it, leaving an unwanted print in their life that they didn't need. You are the most horrible person I have ever met. A pathetic, hypocrite woman." Despite possessing a dangerous hurricane shaping under his veins, he appeared tranquil.

"Fine, I'm horrible, pathetic and hypocrite and it has nothing to do with you. Absolutely nothing!"

"What happened to you, you aren't in your best version." Nina visibly swallowed, when the tip of his nose skimmed the curve of her cheekbone, she took her steps back to avoid his flimsy touches that effortlessly stirred her weak on her knees.

"Jokes on you, I also have someone who had left a print on me without my asking. Trust me, I'm in my best version now." Nina boldly retorted back, tipping her chin up to glare into those mesmerising golden sapphire. She stopped caring about others a long time ago, people like him gave her nothing but pain, so why would she care? 

"Ah fuck. Why do you always have to hurt my feelings, red?" Taehyung kissed her both cheeks, blessing Nina a privilege to gawk at him with her mouth hung open. Was he bipolar? "I don't like arguing with you." Taehyung appeared dramatically depressed, gnawing his inner cheek.

"What are you doing?" Taehyung lifted her in a bridal way and coolly sauntered toward the kitchen. 

"I'm not gonna eat anything cooked by you, what if you mix drugs on it, or worse. Poison." Nina squinted her eyes at him, openly judging him as Taehyung flashed her one of his resting bitch faces that cowered people.

"I'm not gonna cook for you, don't consider yourself that lucky." Taehyung scoffed, his lips coiling for a sneer.

"Jerk, You don't even know how to cook. Don't act cocky." Nina mimicked his scoff and pinched his waist, twisting the chunk of flesh as Taehyung winched by the ache, widening Nina's evil grin.

"Can you stop being a fickle bitch?" Taehyung hissed at the uncomfortable sensation on his waist and narrowed his eyes on her.

"Aw, why? Does it annoy you?" Nina innocently batted her long lashes at him, her eyes were round and wide and gorgeous just entirely like her.

"Yes, it annoys me." Taehyung tone was clipped.

"Then I'll always be a fickle bitch with you." Nina threw her head back and cackled evilly like a witch and she pinched his waist again, this time more harshly.

"One more time you pinched me. I'll drop you on the floor, and will watch you pathetically crying over your aching butt." Taehyung bit her back with a whiff of warning in his undertone, he grinned.

"Do it and I'll kick your dick so hard that you won't be able to produce kids in the future." Nina grinned back, swinging her legs back and forth. 

"Then we will adopt a kid, Red." Taehyung enunciated, the statement was mawkish enough to melt her here and there as he planted a mushy kiss on her cheek.

"You are getting under my skin. I can't even look at you without having the thought of killing you." Nina whispered under her breath, not knowing that he had heard her well.

"I'm giving you a chance to spend your whole life trying to kill me and in return, you just have to name me your whole existence and the side beside your bed as your fucking husband." Taehyung showed the audacity to chirp his brashy thoughts like this. He placed her on the countertop of the kitchen and hovered over her by bracing his palm by her sides.

Nina's eyes twitched, she wished that her glare could singe the stupid smirk that he was wearing on his stupid lips.

"Today is my parent's wedding anniversary party in our mansion, be my date." 

Nina choked. He wanted her to enter Kim Mansion as his date? Oh, shit.

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