The Crown Prince (Taegi AU)

Chapter 18

Hyun had called Yoongi urgently regarding the Old Lao case.

Old Lao had met a tragic end, but soon after his death, his wife came forward with information. When Hyun tried to question her, she refused to talk and said a single sentence, "I want to talk to the crown prince."

If it hadn't been for everything that had happened, Yoongi would never carelessly meet up with someone like this. What if the woman had a knife hidden in her sleeve and was planning on attacking the crown prince? With Old Lao dead, they couldn't even make sure that this woman was his wife or what their relationship with each other was like.

This was a bet Yoongi was willing to take. He had Hyun by his side and he was sure that even if that woman was planning on attacking him, it would only be her stupidity since Hyun would never let anything happen to Yoongi.

Yoongi wasn't alone when he went to meet the woman. He invited two more generals with him.

General Jeon and General Park were bickering in the early morning about something Yoongi didn't know, but when they got summoned by the crown prince, they immediately stopped and put their argument aside. They weren't going to disobey Yoongi, however, as they walked side by side behind Yoongi, the other guards could clearly see that something was up.

The two generals who were always joking around were now glaring at each other and purposefully bumping the other's shoulder.

With the weight of their armor, one look and it was clear that the bumping of shoulder hurt. If it had been anyone else, they were afraid that one bump would have been enough to dislocate their shoulder.

Compared to the hostile aura around these two, Yoongi wasn't looking too happy as well.

He had to leave Taehyung behind for this and he already regretted it. If this woman wasn't going to give them any important information, Hyun was the least of her worries; Yoongi would directly behead this woman.

When the woman saw the group of scary people enter the room, the tears that had not yet shed from her eyes, started flowing down uncontrollably.

"Y-your highness..." She cried out and Yoongi cringed at the sight, "T-they did it. They forced him to do it. He was innocent. He didn't deserve this."

The woman fell onto her knees and tried to cling onto Yoongi's robe but he stepped back, "Speak clearly. I'm not here to listen to how you have been wronged."

Jungkook was shocked at how the crown prince was behaving. He thought he was angry but the real person who was in a bad mood today was this young man in front of him.

The woman and the guards weren't shocked at the crown prince's behavior since they didn't know the crown prince well and they had already perceived him to be a cold-hearted inhumane dictator. 

The woman looked up at the crown prince's face. She was already on the floor and this made it possible for her to see his face from in between the veil. 

Her tears stopped and she fell back from the shock, she looked like she had seen a ghost. That scar, it scared her to near death. With Yoongi glaring down at her, the only thing she noticed was the scar and the piercing black eyes, it was more than enough to scare her for life. She only saw what she wanted to see and although the prince's face could be considered handsome, she could not say the same. 

"I'm not here for your nonsense!" Yoongi ordered, his voice louder and sending a shiver down the woman's spine. 

Yoongi knew why the woman was so scared suddenly, after all, their eyes had met, and just like how she had seen his face, he could see her scared expression as well.