•Chapter seventeen•

If I'm drowning, I'll pull you along with me.

"I won't, mom!" Jungkook yelled, on his knees at her feet as he cried all over again.

He couldn't take in the hundreds of mistakes he had done just because of his stupidity and recklessness.

"You have to!" Youngmi yelled, infuriated by the way Jungkook seemed to take the feelings of the girl and the expectations everyone keep because of his promise so lightly.

She was being asked to do something which no one would like and accept.

She's keeping all her holes high for the day he would get married because she will finally see her son take over and become the king.

But Jungkook wasn't even thinking about this. He was messed up all because of his infatuation which he should've forgotten after he concluded a girl his wife.

Jungkook wasn't involved in infatuation and had a much deeper problem because of the imprintimg bond, but she knew none of that.

He didn't tell her that, knowing that she would blame Taehyung for it and say that it happened because Taehyung lured him into doing all these things.

But as much as it was Taehyung's fault for luring him, Jungkook was at fault for giving in to his urges and accepting Taehyung's plead.

Taehyung would break because of him.

It's such a huge chaos, and he hated the way things were going on and what it was leading to.

He didn't want to do this. He wanted to remain with Taehyung and love him forever. He wanted to just stay alone and remain lonely if it Taehyung doesn't love him back or accept him.

He never wanted to bind him down forcefully with this bond and leave him no choice but to like him.

He would rather see Taehyung getting married to someone else and living a beautiful life with them and make his own little beautiful family rather than forcing him to be with him.

He disliked to such a limit that he couldn't even seem to breathe properly around him. With all the courage he could muster, he went up to Taehyung so the omega would take out his frustration on him, but he was met with a crying Taehyung who claimed to have missed him.

It hurt more than Taehyung's sharp words. It would've been much better if the omega had just hit him instead of doing what he did.

He proved himself to be one such alpha who is just needy for an omega. Just any omega who he could call his.

How useless.

He had to make it stop. He already spoilt Taehyung's life; he couldn't tie down another omega and take her happiness away too.

"You should have thought about it before! You cannot be a proper king of you can't control your anger or words, Jungkook!" Youngmi yelled, forcefully pulling him to his feet.

"You have to do something now," she growled. "Either give your meaningless love an end or make yourself a fool and take back a promise you made."

"Can I do that, mother?" he asks, eyes glossy, flashing, screaming hurt. "Can I take back a promise?"

"They'll throw you out of the post of crown prince for not being competent enough to even fulfil his own promises. They've all had strong hopes of seeing you get married. If all you want is your reckless love them go out an end to the reputation of the Jeons. Jeon kingdom will come to an end."

And that's all the words which were required for him to give up on the plan of taking back a promise.

Why? Youngmi was extremely disappointed just as she said those words. Jungkook knew he'd lose his mother if he did such a thing.

Youngmi sighed, running her hand down her face.

"Look, if you want me to do something, I could make myself a villainess and say that I don't wish for you to marry her. I could make up some pathetic story like she's a troubled girl who would only bring more problems to us or whatever, but if they see that girl hurt again, they'll curse at me. However, after taking all that disrespect, Mira surely wouldn't marry you, but all these things will bring hate to the royal family."

"Even you?" Jungkook asks, broken eyes looking at her. He didn't quite care if he recieved hatred.

But he still didn't wish to carry out this plan because it involves breaking the heart of a young girl, who's already gone through too much.

There wasn't an option.

He just wanted to keep the heart of Mira and Taehyung.

"It's alright," she said, gulping. "Just think about yourself and your life for now. Keep the kingdom aside and go speak to Mira. You cannot hurt the girl any further. Just go tell her what your feelings are."

"Will she understand?" Jungkook asks, voice laced with half hope and half nervousness.

"After everything that happened... Will she understand that who she thinks is hers does not want to be hers?"

"It's up to her," Youngmi stated. "But we won't do anything that would hurt her. It wouldn't bring us any happiness, and you know that."

Jungkook walked out of the room, straight heading towards his own room where Mira was staying in the past few days.

He knocked at the door and entered the room, finding Mira sitting all alone while looking at the sky from the window.

She took in a deep breath--trying not to visibly show her pleasure--when she got Jungkook's scent and turned around, getting to her feet to greet Jungkook.

"Prince," she muttered, bowing, smiling. "I-I was thinking about you."

"About me?" Jungkook asks, eyes looking at her as he pushed the door close but not letting it lock. "What about me?"

"About the promise you have in the courtyard," she said in a small voice because she wasn't so used to speaking to Jungkook yet.

It's been a few weeks and she's always been around Jungkook, but she had already lost her entire identity and existence to Jungkook. It made her very shy to be around him.

Jungkook exhaled shakily, stepping forward but keeping a safe distance between them.

"I wanted to speak to you about that too."

Mira furrowed her eyebrows and nodded. She didn't know what to expect. She hoped Jungkook was just here to discuss about their marriage or something related to the date of the marriage.

Because she knew there was no right for Jungkook to back away from this.

"What is it, alpha?"

"Just call me Jungkook," Jungkook pleaded before getting straight to the point because his restless heart just wanted to hear from Mira that he could do what he wanted. "I wanted to tell you what I feel for you."

Mira gasped inaudibly and nodded, wide eyes looking away instantly as she tried to hide her red cheeks.

She hesitantly attempted to get Jungkook to sit down first, but the alpha denied because he was too nervous to sit in a place and act like nothing important was happening.

"Mira, please listen to everything I have to say before telling a word."

She nodded, suddenly feeling that this was much more serious than she thinks. Of course, how could she expect a man who has been crying for another omega to come up to her out of nowhere and tell her that he loved her?

She knew what Jungkook was going to tell. She already knew what to tell him too.

Yet, she held a hope for the things to be positive.

Maybe... Jungkook had already forgotten Taehyung and started loving her?

It's not been that long since they left, but she knew she was beautiful enough to hold the eyes of an alpha, having had many alphas who had a crush on her even in their own palace.

But she wasn't against just any ordinary looking omega.

Taehyung... Taehyung looked spectacularly breathtaking. It was so damn easy for a person to look at him and keep looking at him for a long time.

She knew it.

She didn't want to fight against Taehyung knowing that the omega didn't even like Jungkook so she didn't have to worry about it.

But she didn't know Jungkook enough to understand that the alpha didn't love beauty but personality, their inner self and who they genuinely are, keeping aside the outer looks of theirs.

"Mira, I know how much you've been through in the past. With an asshole father who doesn't know the value of omegas, I know you've struggled. I had been extremely upset and disturbed when your father mentioned you before everyone because I instantly knew thay you've been through immense trouble and pain."

Jungkook was too nervous to say the things in his heart straight away.

He was twisting his words unconsciously, hoping Mira could see his desperation.

Mira listened carefully, taking in every melodious syllable that left Jungkook's lips in a powerful glory, making her captivated.

She loved how Jungkook felt her pain just by hearing her father speak about her.

He should even know that she didn't want to go back to a person who rapes his wife every night and hits his daughter every day, right?

"I wanted to take you away from Daesong the moment I heard of you. I was impulsive, angry and hurt. "

"I can understand, alpha. For a person with a kind heart like you, it is obvious you feel pain just by thinking about all this."

Jungkook shook his head denyingly. He closed his eyes for a second, taking a deep breath to calm his raging self.

"I'm not kind-hearted, Mira," he shook his head, sensing her confusion.

"I-I-- I'm not here to speak about how much I pitied you either. I'm here to tell you that the reckless promise I made that day was just a mistake. I did it in anger. I-I don't want to marry you."

"What are you saying?" Mira asks, her voice shaky. "What do you mean by this, alpha?"

"I can't, Mira!" Jungkook exclaimed making her flinch. "I love-- I love someone else."

"Who?" She growled, knowing who it is already. "Taehyung oppa? You love him, don't you?"

Jungkook looked at her with wide eyes, glistening with unshed tears which the fuming girl chose to ignore.

Those million gifts and moments he spent with her were nothing then?

She couldn't believe it.

If it was impulse that made him accept her, it is impulse that's making him do this.

He wanted her too but it's just the bond that's making him scared to accept her because he couldn't take the responsibility of loving her when having another bond.

But she's here for that.

She's here to take both their pain away.

"I know it already," she said, looking away with pain. "I saw you two argue that night. I know that you love someone who hates you, and your wolf has unintentionally imprinted an omega because of being influenced by that omega's pheromones--"

"No," Jungkook denied, going closer to hold her hand, trying his best to make her understand what he's feeling.

She turned a blind eye to the pain in his eyes.

"What you don't know is that me and my wolf already belong just to that one person."

"And that's Taehyung?" She asks, rolling her eyes. "Someone who doesn't care about you or see you as his mate? Look, Jungkook, I love Taehyung oppa, and I see why you fell for him. He's indescribably pretty, and he's someone with a pure heart and soul for coming to me everyday even though he knows that I'm going to marry his imprinter. But see the reality; he wouldn't ever come to me or speak to me if he cared of you as he would be jealous that you're mine."

"I'm not yours!" Jungkook yelled in a whisper. "I-I'm his! I'm only and only his!"

"You're too far into this feelings for him, oppa," she stated with a sharp glare and strong voice which wasn't soft or sweet anymore.

"I'm someone who has always been taught to keep my mouth shut and let the alphas do what they want. And if that is what you want, then I will keep my mouth shut."

Listening to her words, Jungkook's heart sank. He wouldn't ever like it if she killed her words before they could pass her lips.

He hated what she was saying.

She knew absolutely nothing and dared to say things like she knew everything.

But that doesn't mean he had a right to make her shut up.

"No," Jungkook denied immediately. "Please just tell me whatever is in your heart."

"Then listen carefully, alpha. Taehyung is only seeing you just because you're his imprinter. He wouldn't care for you or who you marry if you hadn't imprinted him. He's feeling just because he's forced to, and it would be nothing but a mistake to continue this feelings of his which could lead to only resentment later."

"What are you saying?" Jungkook asks, frowning. "I don't understand."

"I'm saying that Taehyung will never accept you as a lover," she aaid sternly before her voice got softer, "He wouldn't see you as a husband or mate like I already do."

"I don't love you--"

"Neither does he love you!" She said, cutting him off because she didn't want him to tell her that he didn't feel for her.

It hurt.

She's been through too much to go through any more pain. They should know this. They couldn't hurt her any further.

She wouldn't take it.

"I love you. Please... Give me a chance."

"I can't!" Jungkook growled, trying to shut down all her hopes of having him love her. "Even if I'm forced to, I'll still love only Taehyung."

Heaving out a sigh, Mira turned around. She held back her tears as her breaking heart begged for comfort which she couldn't seem to give herself.

"Then go," she muttered. "Go to your love and take him to a place where no one can find you. Let this kingdom along with omega supremacy drown to such a dept that it can't be brought back again."

"Huh?" Jungkook looked at her back, trying to understand her. "What?"

"When you admit to everyone that you do not want to fulfil your promise, my father will make sure to throw you out of the throne and make himself the king of this place like he always wanted to. He wants omega supremacy to end, and he'll not lose a single chance to make his dreams come true."

It was alright to lie a little, right?

Daesong hadn't ever told Mira his plan. All he told her--ordered her--was to go marry Jungkook and remain his wife then send information about the kingdom's strategic places and military.

If she failed to make her his wife, he would surely do something similar to what she just said, and she was clever enough to know that and use that.

Mira didn't want to threaten Jungkook, but she thought it was all fair for a marriage to start out rough and then turning into a better story.

After all, Jungkook had come to her life like a prince coming to a princess in a fairy tales. It wasn't wrong to think that her story will have a happy ending like in every other fairy tale.

Right there ended the thought of not marrying Mira in Jungkook.

But he still had that one small beam of light peeking into darkness, so he asked,

"Will you do something then? You can claim to not love me and not want to be with me, and this promise will come to a proper end without people resenting me. Will you do this? I will provide you all the protection from your father--"

"I told you," she cut him off, "I love you. So I'll be a fool to say that I don't want to marry you."

"Even if I say that I don't want this?" Jungkook asks, suddenly enraged and angry.

He and Taehyung were forced into a bond together, but none intended to force it on either of them.

Mira was forcing this bond on him now.

And she wasn't doing anything to help him even after knowing that he didn't want this even in the slightest way.

"That doesn't matter for now because all this was up to my choice, and I want this marriage. So why should I disagree to marry you?"

He was left with no choice now. He was left with no fucking hope.

He lost it all.

He messed everything up.

"I--" Jungkook's voice wavered in anger. "I don't want this to happen."

Mira smiled, turning back in front as he walked to Jungkook and placed her hands on his shoulders.

"I have many things to tell you, Jungkook. I want to be your other half, your mate before I can show you what recieving love will be like--"

Jungkook shook his head and grabbed her hands to push it away from his chest.

"I'm more selfish than you think I am," Jungkook said, too angered to do anything properly.

"Even if I marry you, it won't be real. Our marriage will be fake, relationship will be fake. Your love will never be what I want, Mira. You could deserve more than me because I will never keep you happy. This obsession of yours will not take you anywhere."

"What are you saying?" She asks, almost losing her mind due to those words.

"I'll love Taehyung forever. Nothing will ever change that. I'll make arrangements to call for a fake priest for our marriage. We will only exist in front of the eyes of the people. While inside doors, you won't be more than any other omega or someone like a younger sister to me. My heart already belongs to Taehyung, Mira. Nothing you do can change that."

"It will change," Mira said, grabbing his face and cupping it with her hands. "It has to."

She connected their lips, forcing Jungkook to kiss her while Jungkook rudely kept his lips pressed together, refusing to let her have the satisfaction she needs.

He knows she's desperate. He knows she's just lovesick.

He can't help her with the things she was going through for he belonged to someone already.

He was Taehyung's. He will remain Taehyung's.

Mira bit and sucked on his lips, whimpering when he didn't respond even a little. Jungkook pushed her away, shaking his head at her, still firm on his decision and words.

He walked out, his future getting a bit more clear.

He will not give himself to anyone. He wasn't imprinted, so it doesn't matter to anyone if he loved someone else.

But if he gave himself to anyone other than Taehyung, he will kill himself, and this didn't involve body or physical relationship but his love.

His love will be directed only to Taehyung.

And that's just how he will live.

Away from his life,his Taehyung, but still tending to his love for him.

Away from happiness which he would get when being near Taehyung but close to him by the love that attached his heart to him.

Away from Taehyung but close to Taehyung.

And he doesn't fucking care about anyone else now.

He crossed paths with Taehyung who, at first, looked away. He tried to sneak away and go unnoticed by Jungkook, forgetting that the alpha had always had his eyes on him.

Taehyung snapped his head towards him when he went straight towards him and stood right before him.

"She kissed me," Jungkook said, looking at Taehyung's eyes with a distant look but noticing Taehyung's frown and pain after hearing his words.

"Neither did I feel anything now, nor will I ever feel anything when I am with her."

Taehyung took it as a promise. He had gotten a promise from him that he wouldn't marry Mira and had already been satisfied.

But this promise made him happier.

He swallowed back the wish to smile and kept quiet because he didn't know what to say.

He better keep his words, for Taehyung would tackle him to the ground and take his life if he did something to go against this promise.

*-*-*-*

"We want to talk about the celebrations about your marriage--"

"Talk to Mira about it," Jungkook said, not even trying to show his disinterest at this point. It's of no point now.

Since the day Youngmi announced that she'll be stepping down from the throne and letting her son take over along with his future wife, all people could speak to him about was the marriage.

It was supposed to be sweet and cute to any lover.

Just Jungkook hated it.

Because the person he was marrying wasn't the one he wanted to marry. He doesn't even try to deny it in fear of hurting Mira now because he had openly admitted that he didn't want it.

Oh, he wasn't having a proper legal marriage anyway. 

Mira was all excited and happy though.

Jungkook didn't care.

What he did care about was the fact that Taehyung had been staying in his room, locked up, since the time he announced his marriage.

There are so many things that are going on now. Jungkook couldn't find any time to go to Taehyung's room and stand outside to hear Taehyung's complains, or perhaps, his cries.

He didn't want to do that too.

He didn't have the courage to confront Taehyung and tell him that even if he's marrying another girl who came to his life a few days ago, he will still love Taehyung. It even sounded so ridiculous to him.

It wouldn't make sense to Taehyung.

Nothing could convince him that Jungkook was doing these things because he has to. He couldn't tell it was a fake relationship too.

The pain that came with having false hopes was too bad. Even if he married Mira, he would have to make others believe that it was true.

Taehyung would still have to see him being a good husband to Mira, and it would only make things worse because he's been told that Jungkook only sees him as a mate.

For how long he needs to be this good mate, Jungkook doesn't know.

It was only fine for him to not speak of this to Taehyung.

Nothing could stop what's happening.

Taehyung's or Jungkook's cries or yells couldn't stop it too. What was happening was inevitable.

Currently, he was in a room which was meant for keeping records of the past population and other such stuff when he heard another knock. 

He sighed, fisting his hand.

"If it is about the marriage, then please talk to Mira--" 

He furrows his eyebrows when he heard the door open without him permitting the person.

He peeks from behind the shelf to find someone so special to him standing there, arms crossed before him with the most broken expression on his face. 

"It is about the marriage," Taehyung said, coming forward. His face wasn't swollen because he hadn't been crying, but that doesn't mean that he isn't devastated. 

He felt immense disappointment when his marriage with Mira was announced because after the promise Jungkook made, Taehyung thought he wouldn't marry Mira. 

"But I want to talk to you about it, not to Mira." 

Didn't he have any right to do stuff like this after Jungkook basically tied chains around his wrist and ankle? 

Didn't he have a fucking right over Jungkook when the elder has all right over him now? 

If he's drowning and Jungkook didn't willingly extend his hand to save him, he'd grab onto him and pull him along.

He wasn't suffering alone.

He had already told Jungkook that he would kill him if he tried to hurt him any further.

He wasn't here to kill but to give a warning.

It's time to tell Jungkook that whatever the matter may be, if Taehyung cannot move on, Jungkook can't too. 

He has lived like a prince. 

He knows that he just needs to write one single letter to his hyung about the matter, and Jungkook's worst nightmare could come true. 

If Yoongi wasn't a huge threat to Jungkook, Taehyung himself is. 

He would hurt himself in front of Jungkook just to see the older in pain. The malistic self of his would go insane and just want destruction. 

It was better to not trigger that side of his.

If Jungkook chose to ignore his condition and continue making a good life with Mira, he would kill Jungkook and then kill himself. 

He wished to see the girl happy but not at the cost of his own happiness. 

Jungkook watched him with weary eyes and parted his lips to speak but was cut off by a dangerous growl from the omega who came closer, pushing Jungkook harshly on the shelf, startling the male. 

"You will shut your mouth and listen this time," Taehyung threatened, growling at the back of his throat, eyes flashing yellow. "You get that?" 

Jungkook was too shocked to speak. He had never received this type of angry treatment from 
Taehyung. 

"I'm asking you something!"

Jungkook gasped, nodding with wide eyes because he knew he had no damn choice but to listen. Taehyung held his chin leaning on him, feeling a burn when his torso touched Jungkook's. 

Jungkook looked like a deer who fell into the trap of a hunter. 

And this couldn't satisfy Taehyung any more. 

Smirking, Taehyung glanced at his lips before looking back at Jungkook with his gaze s sharp that could burn Jungkook. 

Jungkook had seen Taehyung act seductive for others. 

He hadn't ever though that it would be this difficult to be in the recieving end of things like this.

Hell, did this feel painfully, guiltily good. 

Taehyung growled at him when his hands tried to grab his hips and keep him away from his crotch, trying to not let things turn to something they both wouldn't want.

"I did not give you permission to do that." 

Taehyung didn't seem to have a need to back down.

That's all it needed for a royal alpha to whimper and clasp his hands behind his back.

Taehyung smirked, feeling purely pleasured to have Jungkook listen to him like this. 

This is the kind of things he loves other than being dominated over and thrown on bed while being fucked hard and rough--just like the way Jungkook did it to him while being a completely dominant and strong alpha. 

Now, Jungkook was a--

"A good alpha, aren't you? Continue listening to your omega like this, and I'll let you feel better."  

Jungkook didn't respond, gulping hard when he felt sweat form on his forehead.

Even though his instincts wished to show the omega who is in charge, it would be a white lie to say that Jungkook hated this. 

Taehyung swiped his thumb over Jungkook's lips, urging him to lick them.

He was really pushing Jungkook to the edge now.

Jungkook was finding it difficult to not hold Taehyung and slam his against the shelf to take him then and there. It was difficult, and Jungkook was all about patience.

His huge patience came crashing down when Taehyung was near.

Taehyung traced his cheekbone, face tilted to the side as he mentally praised Jungkook's features and calmness. He continued to touch Jungkook's cheeks and lips, raising his fingers to his eyebrows, noticing how Jungkook fluttered his eyes close.

"How could you kiss her before me?" Taehyung asks, voice saddened and upset. When Jungkook tried to speak, he growled, "I didn't give you permission to speak yet."

Jungkook bit down on his lips, desperately needing to tell Taehyung that he didn't kiss her back and didn't respond even slightly.

"How could you say that you'll marry her when you claim to love me? How can you imprint me, attempt to make me yours, then dump me and go away to another omega?"

Yet again, Jungkook had answers to all of them but no permissions to speak.

Everytime he tried to open his mouth, Taehyung would growl and shut him up.

Taehyung hands wandered around his thinner yet muscular waist, ghosting his fingers over the skin.

It made Jungkook feel so sensitive.

"You made me yours and don't want to give yourself to me?"

Taehyung asks, hands roaming down to Jungkook's torso, feelings Jungkook's abs and body. The alpha threw his head back, biting back a moan as Taehyung continued to tease him.

"But you know what, Jungkook-ie? I know exactly how to claim my people and things. I'll show you," Taehyung cupped his crotch, not hard enough to feel the hardening thick member.

"I'll show you the actual Taehyung you haven't ever seen, that you don't know."

Taehyung watched with scrutinizing eyes as the alpha grew more restless, head throw back while breath ragged and anticipating. His chiseled jaw shone with sweat, and the sight turned Taehyung on so much. 

He was really driven insane to be like this.

He loved seeing Jungkook's pleasured face. Last time, in his heat, he hadn't seen this beauty. 

He could do it now. 

Taehyung squeezed Jungkook's waist when the alpha tried to rock his hips and create friction between his crotch and his palm. Taehyung looked at him sternly, noticing how Jungkook was peaking through lidded eyes. 

"What did I tell you?" Taehyung asks, leaning up and puckering his lips to place a peck on Jungkook's lips. 

Jungkook groaned. "Let's stop, Tae. Don't do something you don't want--"

"If you don't want me to to touch you, I'll stop."

Taehyung smirked when Jungkook denied his statement. Even though he was saying he didn't want to proceed, both knew that he wanted it more than anyone.

Taehyung palmed him, massaging him. The amused smirk didn't vanish for a second even when Jungkook growled, baring his gritted teeth.

"Look at you," Taehyung mused. "You got hard just by this much? Yet you think that girl should be the one you marry?"

"I don't w-want to--"

"Shut up!" Taehyung shut him down. He pushed his knew between Jungkook's legs, pressing it against the alpha's crotch.

Being too proud to do anything to pleasure himself by rubbing on the omega, Jungkook didn't move. He peeked through lidded eyes.

"You won't do it?" Taehyung asks, chuckling darkly. "Don't want to do act like a desperate submissive alpha, hmm?"

Taehyung bit his collarbone, going upwards, closer to Jungkook's ears. "Then wait. Wait until you writhe before me and beg for my help, you bad alpha."

Taehyung brought his lips closer to Jungkook who was barely even breathing now.

He lingered it above Jungkook's awaiting lips, puckering them slightly to peck on them before quickly pulling away before Jungkook could pull him to a kiss.

Taehyung laughed when Jungkook groaned and leaned forward, turning his face away when the alpha got too close to his face.

Jungkook was too desperate to keep calm now.

He held Taehyung's hands, pulling them away from himself as he pinned the boy's arms behind his back. 

Taehyung smirked challengingly as Jungkook connected their lips and kissed him with a strong passion, one strong hand pinning Taehyung's arms behind him while the other was near his head, fingers tightly holding his hair to deepen the kiss. 

Was love involved or not?

Honestly, none of them knew the answer.

Jungkook kissed him with a lot of love, and Taehyung felt it even though this was the first time he was kissing someone.

He could feel Jungkook's love in the way he tilted his head and poured out his desperation completely before melting into the kiss.

Jungkook's arm continued to hold his wrists together while the other roamed around his back delicately, soothing any pain he might feel.

He was soft and sweet yet rough at the same time. He was so perfect that Taehyung couldn't believe he was real.

Taehyung whimpered, opening his lips to let Jungkook invade his warm cavern. He loved how Jungkook dominated him within seconds.

Jungkook kissed him roughly after he was done with the sweet kissing.

His both hands came up, cupping Taehyung's cheeks while his tongue wandered about Taehyung's mouth before he broke away for a second just to connect their lips again and sucking on his bottom lip, not waiting until Taehyung relieved his lungs too.

It felt so right.

This felt so right.

This was what he saw as a dream, a dream that couldn't come true. It was happening now, and he couldn't be happier.

Taehyung, out of breath, struggled to make his pleasured body to react in any way but failed as he was lost in bliss. He let his body cling on the alpha, all the while letting him kissing him deeply and strongly.

He parted and looked away before Jungkook could catch his lips within his own again, too addicted to let go. 

"I-I can't stand," Taehyung almost whines, knees so close to giving out that he was barely able to stand on his own.

Now it was Jungkook's turn to smirk. 

"You were all strong on your feet a while ago," he said, smirk only increasing when Taehyung whimpered. 

"You weren't strong on your feet then," Taehyung said, barely able to stand still as he clutched on Jungkook's shoulder for dear life. 

Jungkook held his waist, pulling him flush to chest as he lifted him off the floor like he weighed absolutely nothing. He carried him to the table and placed him on the edge before connecting their lips again. 

Taehyung was the one to dominate and lead the kiss this time. It wasn't soft; they forgot what soft feels like. Teeth clashing, tongue moulding and lips red in the passionate fervor; they loved it all.

 Taehyung had both his hands around Jungkook's neck, pulling him impossibly close while Jungkook's hand was on his waist, lowering by the second. 

Taehyung let out a startled gasp when Jungkook cold hands wandered into his shorts, trying to tug him off.

And that's when he knew he had to stop. 

He had to stop not because he wasn't fucking desperate to do it with Jungkook right here, in a forbidden place where anyone barge into. 

Not because he was scared; he wasn't slightly bit scared. He wasn't ever a soft and petal like omega to be scared of sex. 

But because he wanted to show Jungkook that he wasn't someone he can come use, wreck, and leave to go to his wife. 

He was here for giving a warning, not pleasure.

If Jungkook needed it, he had to be hiss completely. 

That's how it will work. 

That's how he will make things work. 

Messing with an alpha was something he mastered. He wasn't playing around now but had to do this to make Jungkook understand that he wouldn't let himself be used.

"Stop," he ordered when Jungkook was finally about to pull his damp shorts away. "Get away." 

Jungkook was taken aback, immensely confused.

He didn't need to be told twice to stop though. He jerked away from Taehyung, wide eyes looking at him with pure worry at the thought of forcing something on Taehyung or doing something he wasn't supposed to. 

Taehyung hopped off the table, managing to hold himself up, to stand strong and not throw himself on Jungkook. 

He adjusted his shorts which was ridden down to his thighs, noticing how much slick he had produced just by touching Jungkook and kissing him. 

He looked back up, holding Jungkook's hand and bringing it to his crotch, pressing his hand against his wetness as he bit his lip seductively. 

And Jungkook lost his entire mind. He had to growm to keep his thoughts and actions in control because he could see clearly that Taehyung didn't want to stop. 

This omega knew how fucking to affect him. 

So Jungkook tried one last time. He pushed his middle finger over Taehyung's hole, almost moaning when he felt his warm hole clench through the cloth while Taehyung hissed. 

It ended there. 

Taehyung let go off his arm, and Jungkook had to bring his hand back to himself though he wanted to continue touching Taehyung and take him. 

"Remember this, Jungkook-ie," Taehyung slurred, teasingly, managing to act like he was not desperate to feel the alpha. "I'll only be yours if you give me the whole of you, may this bond exist or not." 

"Do you even need that?" Jungkook managed to ask. 

Yes, Taehyung thought but didn't say it because he knew he it would come off in a bad way.

He was only starting to develop these cursed feelings, and it would be a total excuse if he said it was because of the bond.

"I don't," Taehyung said instead, noticing how Jungkook's hopeful expression turned sour.

He wasn't going to suffer alone, again. He wasn't letting Jungkook satisfy himself by thinking that he did feel for him.

He wasn't still so mad in love to see Jungkook's pain as his pain.

"You need me, and if you didn't need me, I would never be here right now. I would be outside, perhaps helping people decorate this palace for your marriage." 

"So all you feel for me is because of the bond--"

"I don't feel for you," Taehyung cleared sternly, but it was a lie.

He was selfish; he didn't care.

All he wanted at this point was to make sure he wasn't alone. He didn't want to be the only one in pain or feeling longing and pain.

If it was happening, it should happen to both of them.

"And, yes, I'm doing all this because of the bond that does force me to feel for you." 

I hate this. Jungkook thinks. I hate that I had a hope for him to fall for me, but he admits that it's only the bond. 

What am I to you? Why won't you see that I need you genuinely? What do I need to prove for you to believe that I love you endlessly. 

"See, Jungkook," Taehyung rolled his eyes. "You're an alpha. You might think that you're feelings for me are forever but as soon as you see Mira naked on bed, waiting for you to knot her, you'll conclude that you need is an omega." 

"Is that all my feelings seem like to you?" 

"Is there more?" Taehyung turns dangerously angry. "Would you announce in a courtroom where I--your love, as you claim--that you are going to marry that girl if there was anything more?" 

"I had to do it because--" 

"Keep this drama for later. What happened was not all your fault, but I don't fucking care now. I can't see myself sad and wish to cry all the time just for you when you go and marry that girl." 

"I don't want it too," Jungkook sighed deeply, so frustrated. "I don't want you to be sad." 

Taehyung ignored his genuine words because even if he did consider those words, he knows they are useless.

Jungkook wouldn't want it, but Taehyung was suffering so damn much.

"You better know that if you do anything--anything mates do--with Mira, I'll make your life a living mess."

"How can you think I will--" 

"You won't, right?" Taehyung asks, daringly. "Don't forget that my wolf can feel everything you do. Trust me, Yoongi hyung didn't teach me how to hold a sword for nothing."

Jungkook looked at him with sad eyes. Nothing he said could make Taehyung understand his own feelings. 

He knew Taehyung thinks of him as someone who was just greedy to have omegas.

He couldn't say anything to oppose it too.

Taehyung nodded on understanding that his point was clear. He was about to leave when Jungkook spoke up softly, 

"I won't ever see Mira as a mate or wife." 

"That's good for you because if you ever do it, you'll be lying on a pool of your own blood." 

He left after muttering his harsh words. 

I need just you, Taehyung 

Only you. 

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