"Don't you understand?! Your parents want you back! You're precious to them, why are you so stubborn?!"

The pure blood was growling at the beta, definitely losing his patience. He managed to get her towards the very border or the territory, but he fears it wouldn't take much longer before she starts screaming.

"No! What don't you understand?! I don't want to go back there, I'm much better off here! I never returned for a reason. Now leave me alone before I open my mouth and start alarming everyone about your presence!"

She glared, already stepping into the opposite direction.

Jeongguk, now completely fed up, yanks her back and adds pressure on her throat, causing her to temporarily black-out.

He groans as he lifts her up in his wolf form, already sprinting out of the territory and heading over towards the one he dreads the most to finally put an end to the deal that ruined his life.

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"You were supposed to be dead."

Namjoon's ice cold glare leaves Taehyung trembling violently in the chair he is tied to, once again in the middle of nowhere.

"Just snap his neck, Joon. I can't stand looking at his face any longer." Seokjin rolls his eyes, glancing away after.

"No, that's too easy. Let me have my fun first."

The omega's eyes widened seeing him step closer, kicking the chair to the floor causing him to tumble to the ground.

His head hit the floor and he hissed, scrunching his eyes shut.

The next kick was delivered right in his stomach, the second and third following right after.

"This is for that stupid pure blood of yours!" He spits out, kicking his arm.

At this point, Taehyung is in so much pain he barely even feels it anymore. He starts coughing up blood, dizzily eyeing up.

He was suddenly yanked upwards by his hair, chair and all, earning a few rough slaps on his cheek.

"I'm going to make the pure blood pay, omega. Unfortunately you won't be here to watch him suffer."

The male pulls Seokjin behind him, opening something and starting to walk all around the shed-looking-like thing, pouring it everywhere.

Before he has the time to process what's going on, a match drops to the ground and ignites all of it aflame, the entire place starting to burn out from the inside.

The last thing he sees are the smirks of the two wolves, before the flames blocked his view entirely.

His eyes were wide, chest heaving up and down in panic.

<Alpha! 'M so sorry, I should've listened to you!

He stairs wailing out hysterically, smoke entering his lungs.

The alpha handed the unconscious body over to the pack's guard, unsure of why he felt pain throughout his entire body up until now. To his horror, he hears the desperate cries of his precious one, next.

His eyes redden, alpha fully alert.

>Pup?! What is going on? Where are you?!

But all he heard was silence, the feeling of something life-threathingly wrong flowing through him.

>Taehyung, love, where the hell are you?! I told you to stay inside, damn it!

But he never recieved a response. He hastily runs back, stumbling upon a very tired, heavily panting Jimin along the way.

"F─finally!" The male breathes, bending over to catch his breath. "There's something wrong with T─Taehyung, he's not responding to the mind link!"

Jeongguk snarled, impatiently growling. No shit. He doesn't have time to listen to whay he already knows out.

He nods in his wolf form, dashing past Jimin whilst trying to pick up on any scent that could give him a clue to where his omega is.

Jimin almost cried, lungs and legs dying on him as he follows the alpha again.

Shifting back to his human form and stepping back into his clothes, Jeongguk speed-walks through yet again his omega's old territory, trying to pick up on any scent.

"You should have listen to me, pup, fuck!" He mutters through gritted teeth, accidentally bumping right into someone.

"Oh, sorry, alpha. My bad." The person exclaims, causing the male to furrow his brows.

But with one sniff, he noticed to his horror that the scent-blocker is once again, wearing off.

He starts running─ at this point not caring about anyone seeing him, cause he's running out of time. And by the feelings of it, Taehyung is, too. He can only hope people won't get too suspicious. He mentally makes a promise to himself to never return to this pack, ever again.

Simply because he can't risk it.

He dashes out of the territory on the other side, going into the direction of his cabin.

But, to his relief, he picks up on Taehyung's scent not too far from the cabin.

A murderous growl erupts from deeply inside him, after he picks up on the other scent.

Namjoon.

He stars running at full speed, his heart hammering inside his chest and worries going just as wild inside of him. What if he's too late? God, he's a terrible alpha for not taking better care of his mate. He should've commanded the male to stay at home.

He stops right in his tracks at the terrifying sight of smoke clouding up in the distance, the portruding odour of something burning hitting his nostrils.

"TAEHYUNG!" He shouts out in panic, nearing the half-burned down, abandoned shed.

"Pup, can you hear me?!" He shouts again, trying to see anything through the flames.

He coughs, smoke entering his lungs. He clasps his hand over his mouth and nose, trying to prevent it from happening more often.

He trembles on the spot, wood crashing down in the rapid growing fire. It wouldn't be much longer now, before the entire thing collapses.

Inhaling a deep breath, he holds the oxygen in his lungs and jumps right through the flames, shutting his eyes tight at the pain.

He uses his hands to hastily try to brush his shirt, ridding it of the paining residues.

Shooting his eyes towards his mate, tears form in his eyes at the sight of him unconscious, tied to a chair. There was blood on his mouth, cheeks red, his shirt ripped at his abdominal area exposing giant bruises.

Dashing behind him to untie him, he picks him up in his arms and performs the same moves again; jumping right through the fire, shielding his omega's body the best he could with his own.

He could get hurt─ his precious not.

He sprints farther, towards the safe ground and collapses to the floor with Taehyung in his arms. Laying him down, he rolls over the ground to get rid of the remaining flames on himself, hissing out in pain at his burnt flesh.

"Pup!" He whispers, trying to shake the boy back into conciousness.

After a few more tries, the male starts coughing violently, thrashing on the floor whilst trying to sit up.

Once he opens his eyes, he's met with the sight of his alpha staring desperately at him, his clothes torn and some places even completely burnt off.

"I'm s─sorry!" The omega starts to sob out with a painful throat, not being able to look at the heavily injured alpha next to him.

It is all his fault. He shouldn't have been so stupid to try and go after him, he should've had more faith in him.

"Darling, hey, shh, it's fine! We're both alive, we're going to be okay! My wolf will heal me in no-time, don't worry!" He tries to reassure, holding the wailing omega to his chest.