•Chapter forty nine•

So much better. 

"Straighter," Jimin said. "You can't slouch like that." 

Taehyung whined as he complained about not feeling comfortable sitting like that for so long, but he listened to his teacher and straightened his back. 

"Chin up, lips pressed together, eyes looking front, no frowning, and..." 

Jimin continued to tell him a million things he needed to do, but Taehyung zoned out, mind going in different directions. 

This always happened. 

Whenever he was being taught something, he wouldn't pay full attention, but he'd think about learning all the things he needed to when he was free. 

Five months had passed.

Taehyung managed to do great work in learning even with his poor ability to pay attention. He would give entire credits to his dedicated teacher who made sure he learned everything he was teaching. 

Other than his knowledge about royalty nothing except his closeness with Jungkook and the growth of his tiny angel happened. Both were heart whelming. 

Jungkook was being sweeter to him every day that passed, fulfilling his promise of loving him more by learning him more with every passing moment. 

Chaewon grew bigger, going from looking like a tiny potato to a cute little ball. Her features became more evident, and Taehyung had to say that she had most of Jungkook's features except her eyes. 

He had heard somewhere that a royal and commoner's child will have more of the royal's features, but he didn't know how true it is. 

She now rolls onto her tummy from laying on her back and sits up for a few seconds while leaning on Jungkook's torso. 

It was so, so sweet to see her grow that Taehyung wondered why the time was going so fast. She had learned to babble and smiles a lot whenever she sees her parents which showed them how she recognizes them so quickly; it makes Taehyung nervous that she'll grow up too fast. 

He wanted her to stay a baby forever but also wished to see her when she was a full-grown girl. 

He was nervous, but Jungkook was much more affected by these thoughts than he was. 

That's why he spent every moment he can with her. He took her to the courtroom and his office and only let her go when she got too fussy and bored of being there. 

That was also adorable to Taehyung. It was adorable to see Jungkook coming to him with a pout to give a squirming, whining baby to him, pouting more when she would push him away to go to Taehyung. 

"She just wants to get away from me," Taehyung's pouty mate had told him. It had made him laugh so hard, and thinking about it made him let out a silly chuckle now. 

"So you're not listening again?" Jimin folded his hands before his chest. "To teach you a small thing, it takes a long time just because you cannot listen carefully."

Taehyung sheepishly smiled, rubbing his palms together. 

"I'll complain to Yoongi." Taehyung's face fell at that. Even though he is fully grown now and even has a baby, his hyung yells at him just the way he used to do when he refused to behave when he was younger. 

And though Taehyung was a fully grown man who had a child, he still gets upset on hearing Yoongi's yells and even cries like he used to do. 

"Don't, hyung," Taehyung requested, grabbing Jimin's palm. "You did it yesterday and he yelled at me. You felt sorry after that then why are you repeating your mistake?" 

"Because you haven't learned your lesson, punk!" Jimin said, faking his offended state because it just wasn't possible to be mad when Taehyung was looking at him with those cute eyes. 

They all still treated him like he was a child. 

Jimin and Hoseok had finally completely made a proper relationship with Taehyung. It didn't take much effort; they just needed to show how much they loved Yoongi to Taehyung by taking good care of him, and Taehyung agreed to accept them. 

Now, Taehyung had two more people looking after him other than his hyung. 

He had previously sent a letter to the Kim kingdom to get in contact with Namjoon too, but unfortunately, it couldn't go. The kingdom had such strong security. Taehyung wondered why it was like that. 

His relationship with Youngmi remained just cold and distant. He didn't speak to her much and only did so when he had to. 

She didn't get to hold Chaewon much too. Just because Taehyung sometimes felt bad for her, he let her hold Chaewon. 

 However, Hyeon didn't hold Youngmi back from holding Siwoo though he first hesitated to do so. No one other than Youngmi had experience in handling children there, so Hyeon went to her when he had a problem that even Taehyung couldn't solve. 

It was different handling an alpha and an omega. 

Siwoo was a complete angel. She threw much less of tantrums and cried a lot less, but the poor thing had poor health always. She was so used to having slight fevers and colds because of low immunity that she stopped reacting to them by crying too. 

That's why they took Siwoo to Mira a few times. 

Well, Taehyung did. Jungkook didn't know about this, and Taehyung had bribed the guards to not tell their king anything. 

He let Mira hold Siwoo for a while and then got out of there with Siwoo who would begin crying on separation. Just that much was enough for Taehyung to know that Siwoo needed Mira.

Honestly, Taehyung thought that Jungkook knows about these things he had done, but Jungkook chooses to not mention it so Taehyung doesn't too.

Siwoo usually stayed with Hyeon's arms or Chohee, and she would grow extremely quiet and uncomfortable if she was put in someone else's hands. Jungkook had held her one before; she gave the same reaction she gives whenever she was with someone she didn't know. 

Chaewon was open to being with just anyone who held her properly and didn't bother her by kissing her too much. 

However, if either of her parents were around, she would keep her eyes on them only. 

Over everything else, she loved Jungkook way too much. She wouldn't fall asleep until Jungkook was there, holding her. Though she did sometimes want to get away from him, she just couldn't stay away from Jungkook. 

she would stay away from Taehyung for much longer and miss him after a much longer duration than she starts missing her dad. 

That made Taehyung salty. 

"I miss Chaewon," Taehyung said. "I can't stop thinking about her." 

Jimin exhaled deeply and nodded. "It's been about a few hours since you're here. Go meet her and be back, yeah? Don't take too long; I'll get bored here. Both Yoongi and Hoseok have gone out, so I don't have anyone here." 

"Okay, sure!" Taehyung chirped, giving a quick hug to Jimin before leaving the huge, empty ballroom that stayed empty most of the time except when there was some occasion in the palace. 

He skipped his way to the courtroom. He couldn't really go in there because there would be people who have come to tell their problems to the king, so if Jungkook was there with Chaewon, he would have to see from afar and leave. 

Thankfully, they weren't there. 

Then where were they? 

They were cuddled up on the bed in their--specifically Taehyung's bed--with Jungkook sleeping on his back covered with a blanket. There was a lump in the blanket right above his chest, Chaewon sleeping peacefully there. 

"Oh god," Taehyung cooed, jumping softly as he couldn't handle how cute they looked. 

Jungkook was fast asleep. He didn't get up even when Taehyung squealed softly. His one casually held the baby in her position while the other lay on the bed. 

Chaewon woke up and squinted her eyes. She bit on Jungkook's shirt, chewing on it. She was showing signs of teething and bit on many things with those gums of hers which caused so much pain to Taehyung when she would bite down on his nipple when drinking milk. 

Jungkook continued to sleep even when her drool wet his shirt. 

"Don't do that," Taehyung whispered, coming closer finally. She first let go of Jungkook's shirt from her mouth and smiled a gummy smile at her mother before turning back and pressing her tongue on Jungkook's neck. 

She did that a lot to Jungkook. Jungkook did that a lot to Taehyung. It showed their love for the scent of the person they licked. 

"You'll wake your dad up," Taehyung whisper scolded, poking her chubby cheek. 

She just went ahead and grabbed a fistful of Jungkook's shirt and pulled on it as much as her tiny hand could. 

"Chaewon," Taehyung rolled his eyes at her. 

 Taehyung looked back at Jungkook who wasn't affected one bit by anything happening. He slept as peacefully as he did, but he was now facing Taehyung, drawn to his scent. 

Taehyung tried to pick Chaewon from Jungkook and place her on the bed, but Jungkook had a death grip on her. Chaewon whined softly and slapped Jungkook's hand; Jungkook let her go finally after that. 

Taehyung placed her on the crib and patted her stomach a few times, going back to bed when her lids started sticking with each other. 

"You're so deeply asleep," Taehyung whispered as he got back on the bed. "You spend so much time with our angel, but you barely spend time with me, huh?" 

He wasn't complaining, but he was complaining. 

"Come on, I'll make you spend time with your other half now." 

Taehyung slowly grabbed Jungkook's nape and brought his neck close to Jungkook's nose. He was heavenly satisfied when Jungkook instantly clung to him, both arms around him now. 

"There," Taehyung cuddled closer, fitting in his mate's arms properly. "This is where you belong, don't you?" 

Within a second, Taehyung's nerves were soothed. He was in such a peaceful state that he was also about to doze off, but the cause of his calmness became the cause he got out of this calm state too. 

Jungkook parted his lips, hot breath hitting Taehyung. The omega was wide awake now, eyes wide. 

Jungkook uttered with his hoarse and deep voice, "Tae? Are you sleeping?" 

Taehyung didn't answer verbally, but his harshly rising and falling chest gave his answer to Jungkook. "Good," the alpha replied. "I wasn't going to let you sleep after you woke me up." 

Taehyung wanted to ask Jungkook what he would do if he had fallen asleep, wanted to ask him what he could do to his omega. 

But he didn't need to ask. 

Jungkook showed him what he would do without being asked to show it. 

He placed his parted lips on Taehyung's neck, tilting his head. His hand went to Taehyung's chin; he pushed Taehyung's face into the pillow to get full access to his milky, unmarked neck. 

They hadn't done anything sexual after they met again. 

All this felt so new that Taehyung's eyes rolled to the back of his head, and a small moan escaped his lips. 

Jungkook stiffened, got bolder, and sucked softly on the skin. Taehyung's shiver gave Jungkook a bit more strength which he used to open his mouth and press his tongue against his neck. 

Taehyung's hand rose to grab Jungkook's hair. 

"If you start, I won't let you stop." 

It was a challenge. Jungkook didn't want to stop and neither did he admit that he had even started anything yet. 

If he did start anything, Taehyung wasn't going to let him stop. 

It was just a little effort to start...

And it took absolutely nothing from Jungkook to make that effort.  He grabbed Taehyung's waist and pulled him close enough to brush his thighs with them, growling softly. 

Taehyung looked at him with hooded eyes as soon as he broke away from him. "If I start, you'll be the one to beg for me to stop." 

Taehyung smirked. This was different. Jungkook had never been this confident both the times they had sex. 

He liked this. 

He liked this confident, strong, and not-so timid man. 

He loved those words which left his beautiful lips more though. 

But both didn't know how this was going to end. They weren't supposed to do this. They had made a promise to not do it until their wedding night. 

"Wait," Taehyung said, cupping Jungkook's cheeks to hold him from nearing him. "Chaewon is still here, I'll go give her to Jimin hyung first, and when we come back... we'll see." 

Jungkook instantly got off of him and nodded with a smile, knowing what had happened. What happened was better than what was going to happen if Taehyung hadn't stopped it. 

They'd had discussed how Taehyung shouldn't take any more of those pregnancy medicines because of how harmful they are for him. They couldn't have a child now; Chaewon was still too young. 

This was good.

It was better it ended like this. 

Taehyung pecked Jungkook's forehead and took Chaewon in his arms anyway though they weren't really going to do anything now. He wanted to go out to calm his stupid desires, and Jungkook surely needed a minute to gather himself too. 

Taehyung got out of the room and sighed in relief. "God I want to get railed so badly by him," he voiced his thoughts in a very small voice so it doesn't reach his innocent daughter's ears. 

He adjusted Chaewon in his arms and placed her head on his shoulders, smiling when she started humming out a few things he didn't understand. 

"Happy, are we?" he asked. "It would be so disgusting to have to see your parents be all affectionate with each other, hmm? Sorry for letting your father lick my neck when you were in there." 

She just ignored him and continued humming. She was so soft that Taehyung hugged her closer, and one of her tiny arms went around his neck. 

He was going to continue making his way to the ballroom but stopped when he noticed two unknown people standing, surrounded by a few people who wore a warrior clothes, not of their kingdom. 

"Master." Taehyung snapped his head around to the guard of Atlas. "They're here from Kim kingdom." 

Kim kingdom? 

Taehyung let out a loud gasp that startled the girl in his arms and the foreign people. 

The guards of Kim kingdom got out of the way and Taehyung looked at the two men standing there with wide eyes. 

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