26.

| 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲. |

"Okay, my sugar daddy."

Taehyung watched, incredulous, as Yuri said those words, and scurried away from him, giggling.

'Does she even realise how much she's affecting me?'

He wondered, as he tried to get a grip on his hormones, which were running high and wild because of her choice of words.

Yes, he had a daddy kink. But now was not the time to do anything about it.

'I'll deal with her later.'

He smirked, and began looking around, for nice clothes that were suitable to wear at a beach, when a lady wearing the centre's uniform came out of nowhere.

Taehyung was slightly startled, and then realised that she was there to help us around the store. He regained his composure, and greeted her.

She respectfully greeted him back, not looking at him for more than three seconds.

He smiled. She was the type of workers everyone needed; respectful, and mature, who wouldn't hit on anyone and everyone.

Taehyung made a mental reminder to appreciate and praise her to the manager.

"Welcome, sir. How may I be of your assistance?" She asked, politely.

"There's a fine lady, who is currently looking through the dress collections. I want you to just stay around, and help her with anything she'll ask. Also, just pick up all the dresses she sees with interest, and add them all to the cart," he said.

Taehyung knew that despite him saying that she could buy anything, without caring about the price, Yuri would still be cautious, and not buy everything she wanted, because she would want to 'save' his money.

The lady nodded, bowed again, before going away to find Yuri, and help her.

Taehyung smiled with satisfaction, and began to pick out clothes that he felt would look good and feel comfortable.

Ten minutes later, his phone began ringing loudly. He pulled his phone out of his pocket, and found that Yoongi was calling him.

Taehyung frowned a little, because Yoongi tended to never call him; it was mostly Hoseok who called.

Thinking that it must be something important for Yoongi to call him, he hurriedly accepted the call, and worriedly spoke, "Hyung? What happened? Did you guys reach safely?"

"Yes, we reached safely, everything's fine. I just called because I felt like it."

"Really? That's surprising," he laughed, relief flooding in his body.

"Ungrateful brat, aren't you? Can't you just be happy that I called you first, and not mock me?"

Despite his words, Taehyung knew that Yoongi was just pulling his leg.

"Hyung, I'm oh-so grateful that you called me because you felt like it," he said mockingly, causing the older to chuckle.

"As you should be."

Taehyung chuckled along with Yoongi, but they died away when he heard his next words;

"Where are you, by the way? At home only, right?"

His smile faltered, as he wondered why Yoongi had suddenly asked that question. "Of course, hyung. Where else would I be?"

"I don't know, I just asked. Take good care of the house, okay?"

"Yes, hyung, you can trust me, everything will be taken care of, nicely," he said, trying to hide the nervousness in his voice. Taehyung had always been intimidated by Yoongi, and straight-up lying to his face was something that was very nerve-wracking.

"Take good care of yourself too, and. . . don't do anything reckless. I'll talk to you later, bye."

Yoongi spoke, very quickly, and cut the call, which left Taehyung saying, "You too," to thin air. He let out a sigh of relief, mind going back to a conversation he had had last night;

"What is it, hyung? Why did you call me here, at this time? You usually never call me, is everything alright?" The blonde, long-haired man, Hwang Hyunjin, asked worriedly.

Taehyung, looked around himself, and, once he was sure that there were no eavesdroppers nearby, cut right to the chase, and asked, "Can you come and stay here for two weeks?"

Hyunjin blinked twice in confusion. "W-what? Here? Sure, but, like, why?"

"I need to go out for a while, without letting the others know. But I can't leave the house unattended; there are many valuable things here, which hundreds would kill and do worse things, for. That's why I'm asking you to stay here, and take care of the house."

Hyunjin raised his eyebrows. "So, you want me to stay here, and protect dangerous, and most likely illegal, things? Something that could get me murdered?"

"Precisely," Taehyung said.

Hyunjin stared at the older for a few seconds, trying to figure if he was just pulling his leg, something he did way too often.

However, the patient but stoic expression on Taehyung's face proved otherwise. Hyunjin sighed.

"But, nothing will happen to you, don't worry. They won't know that you're covering for me, so you'll be okay. Just hide all my photos, and they won't suspect a single thing, if they even come. And that's a very big 'if', so you don't have to worry," he added.

Hyunjin's face relaxed drastically. "Ah, hyung you should've told me that earlier. Of course, I'll stay here for you."

Taehyung smiled. "I knew I could count on you."

"You always can," he said, puffing his chest out with pride, "also, could I, like, call my friends over, to hangout? I mean, I don't know if I'll be able to survive for two weeks, all alone here."

Taehyung looked at Hyunjin's attempt at making puppy eyes, with amusement. He laughed, patting Hyunjin's back. "Okay, but don't burn the house down, and keep everything in one piece."

Hyunjin punched his fist in air in happiness. "You're the best, hyung!"

"I know. Oh, and also, just stay away from the locked rooms, especially the basement."

"Baby!"

Taehyung was shaken out of reverie by Yuri's yell from the distance.

"Yuri?" Taehyung walked towards the source of the sound, and bumped into Yuri, whose eyes were shining, her face lit up with happiness.

"There you are!" She rushed forward to pull him into a hug, who gladly hugged her back.

"What happened, darling? Are you done shopping?" Taehyung asked, gently pulling away from the hug. Yuri nodded happily.

"But, I wanted to try them all first, to make sure that they all fit me properly, or not. I'm quite skinny, so most clothes don't fit me, without alterations. Now, come on! I want you to see me in the clothes you buy me."

Yuri pulled him towards the large changing rooms. Taehyung made himself comfortable on the soft sofas that were conveniently placed for people like him, who had to now watch his significant other dress up.

He couldn't suppress the low chuckles that left his mouth, as he watched Yuri's excited and bouncing stance, as she walked behind the curtains. She clearly had a thing for retail therapy.

"Ma'am, let me help you wear the dresses," Minsoo, the lone saleslady, said, as Yuri began removing her own clothes, to try on the many beautiful dresses and show Taehyung.

The first dress was a sort of cottony summer dress, with light, pastel floral prints and designs. Yuri had picked this dress the moment she had laid her eyes on it; it was very beautiful, and fit her body perfectly.

Taehyung visibly thought so too, because the smile on his face when he saw Yuri walk out in that dress was extremely wide.

And so she continued trying on the various clothes she had picked out, as well as a few dresses she didn't recall picking, but loved nevertheless.

There were a few rare dresses which they both didn't like, which were discarded. But, other than that, everything Yuri tried on, went, packed, into bags, for her to take with her.

Slowly, the bags kept piling up, until Yuri had lost count of how many clothes she had tried and bought. Spending money on clothes was her secret guilty pleasure.

But still, Yuri felt extremely bad because of it, especially owing to the fact that it was all Taehyung's money.

On the other hand, Taehyung was beyond delighted.

Money, to him, was something that came and went all the time; it didn't bother him, and he was usually careless with it, because of the abundant amount of money he possessed.

Taehyung had always wanted to spend his money on someone. Someone special, on whom he could willingly spend his entire fortune.

Of course, he spent money on himself, and always stayed in luxury, never lacking anything in life, but it wasn't fun. It didn't feel worth it.

But, now, looking at Yuri wear such exquisite, posh and expensive dresses, it was all worth it.

The way her face lit up when she saw herself wearing such nice clothes was reward enough for Taehyung.

He was ready to place the entire world at her feet, or destroy it, if it meant that he could witness the brightest, most genuine grin he was seeing now, all the time.

Taehyung really had fallen in too deep.

"Minsoo!" He called out for the helper, who came rushing to him. "I recall seeing a stunning lilac dress, with tiny sparkles near the top, a few shelves away, near the men's clothing section. You'll know when you see it, it's very pretty. Could you please get it for me?"

Taehyung stood up, as Minsoo bowed, and walked away to get the dress he was asking for. He pulled the curtains aside, and quickly slipped in, only to find Yuri in the process of unzipping her dress.

She jumped a little at Taehyung's presence, and turned back to face him. "What are you doing, I'm still changing!"

"Who cares about that? I wanted to see my beautiful angel, so I'm here," he said, walking closer, as Yuri moved backwards, until her back hit the mirror.

They were in each other's arms, when Yuri spoke, "This is the second time you've walked in and found me removing my clothes. Why is that?"

"I'd say that it's fate, but the actual reason is that seeing my babygirl dress up so prettily for me makes me wanna reward and spoil you more," he whispered into her ear.

Yuri held her breath, staring into Taehyung's chocolate eyes, whispering, "Spoil me, Taehyung."

"As you wish, my princess," he said, before placing his lips on hers.

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A / N

[unedited]
okay ik I suck at all the kissing scenes and stuff, but bear with me :")
and I really like this chapter and how it turned out sjjssjjsksjsksdk

taehyung is such a romantic😩😩
ik I'm the one writing all this, but I still get jealous of Yuri, is that healthy? Probably not, but I still feel so single😭😭

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