Once in a Lifetime

Part 39

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️
This part contains content that could potentially be triggering, so please keep that in mind before reading.

TAEHYUNG's POV

~Flashback~
"Kill it." my father said coldly while I was holding a rifle in my hands, aiming at a deer who had absolutely no clue about the cruel destiny he was about to meet.
"Just shoot it already!!" he yelled in an annoyed tone, making my body flinch.
"I-I... I c-can't.." I stuttered as I bent down my head, not daring to look into my father's eyes out of fear.
"You can't?" he chuckled sarcastically and I shook my head as a no.
"Why aren't you looking me in the eyes?" he then asked.
"I-I'm scared that you'll b-beat me.." I said with shaking lips.
"Beat you? A coward like you doesn't even deserve to be beaten." he scoffed.
"Taehyung-ah! What's wrong?" my mother asked worried as she saw we storming off to my room.
"Did he beat you again?" she asked walking into the room where I was sitting on my bed and crying uncontrollably.
"Taehyung..." she spoke in a soft tone as she crouched in front of me, cupping my cheeks that were drenched in tears with her warm hands.
"Why is he so hard on me mum? Will I ever be good enough for him?" I sobbed.
"He's just trying to protect you from the cruel world."
"BY DOWNGRADING AND HUMILIATING ME IN EVERYTHING I DO?! THAT'S NOT HOW YOU TREAT YOUR OWN CHILD!!" I screamed.
"Calm down Taehyung... he might hear.." she said caressing my hands, desperately trying to calm me down.
"What's going on here?" father asked as he walked inside the room, making my body freeze seeing his angry face expression.
"Ran to your mummy's embrace again haven't you?" he chuckled.
"Kangdae... don't be like this..." my mother spoke to him.
"Why? Are you gonna cry too?" he said with a raised voice as he grabbed her wrist and pulled her away from me.
"Don't you ever talk to him again! A dog like him should learn to know his place before he earns his owner's respect."

"You're a disgrace to this family. You don't deserve to be treated like a son of mine."

Those were the last words he told me before he and my mother died in a car explosion while they were on vacation in Brazil.
I was 18 at that time and due to my father's sudden death, I had to take over his business no matter how young I still was.
I never knew exactly what my father's business revolved around until James, our butler of many years, introduced me to the world my father's been keeping as a secret... even from his wife...my mother.
I had no choice but to follow in his footsteps because I had to take care of Jungkook who was just 12 years old at that time.

"He doesn't belong here!"
"He'll ruin everything his father has built over these years!"
"An 18-year old leading the mafia's empire? What a joke!"
"His own father treated him worse than a dog... How can he even live with such shame?"

Because of those words...because of the fact that I was mistreated and humiliated my whole life by my own father... I decided to be better than him.
I gathered all the strength I had left in me and with my head high, I set on to achieve the most important goal in my life.
And in order to achieve that goal, I had to change.
I realised I should leave the scared little boy in the past and become a man feared by many.
And soon enough... I reached it.
Dark Wolf... the absolute of the mafia world... alpha and omega... a man feared just by the mention of his name... the one people begged on their knees to save their miserable lives... a man who became ten times more successful than his own father.
A man who proved that he was more than just a dog.
~End of flashback~

"A dog? A dog you say?!" I chuckled to myself while standing on the edge of the prison building.
"Look where you've led your dog..."
"I... I did everything... and look where it's taken me!! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!" I screamed, burying my drenched cheeks in my hands.
"YOU LEFT ME WITHOUT CHOICE... TURNED YOUR OWN SON INTO A MONSTER... ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?!"
"Ha... ha... hah." I laughed through tears that were falling down to the distant ground.
"KIM TAEHYUNG!" a man shouted, making me turn around to see officers and other officials standing there, a few of them pointing their guns at me.
"Get down from that wall, we're not here to hurt you." he spoke as he signaled officers to put down their guns.
"I just wanted to be good..."
"You still have a chance to become good Taehyung. Now get down from that wall."
"And why should I? I lost the only thing I cared about."
"I know how you feel Taehyung but let's just-"
"NO YOU DON'T KNOW!" I yelled.
"To be despised by my father, I could live with that... But to be despised by Y/N... that's a burden my heart cannot take."
"Taehyung don't do this..." the officer spoke as he took a few steps closer to me.
"You don't understand do you?" I chuckled. "There's no reason for me to keep on living. I ruined everything."

At that very moment, he realised he had two choices: to get down from that wall and face a lifetime of pain and regret or choose his own ending.
He simply smiled back at the officers standing there, opened his arms and fell back.
As he was falling to his doom, the smile remained on his face, remembering everything that led him to this moment.
"I love you forever." he said as a single tear rolled down his cheek before his body hit the ground.