They were his.
And yet, watching them, he recognised immediately how they felt about their omega father, Jungkook.
Taehyung had seen the protective stance they both had taken up, his heart filled with pride to see that instinctive alpha in them.
He looked down at his sons and then at their omega father, they were all his sons had.
He thought again of his dysfunctional parents and realised on another surge of emotion that there was nothing he would not do to give his sons what he had never had.
"Mating it is, then. But, I'm warning you now that it will last for life. That is the measure of my commitment to them," he told Jungkook, looking at his sons.
"Dad?"
The twins were turning in his shaking arms to look at Taehyung.
Any moment now they would start asking questions.
"Upstairs, you two," he said, taking off their duffle coats, "Change out of your clothes and then wash your hands. We'll do the sandwiches together."
The twins stared at Jungkook for a second then nodded, they made a quick dash past Taehyung, deliberately ignoring him, then climbing the stairs together.
A pair of sturdy, healthy alpha male children, with lean little-boy bodies and their father’s features beneath identical mops of dark semi-curls.
Taehyung was quietly watching, as an old memory stirred within him.
Strong sunlight striking down on his bare face, the raised angry voices of his parents above him.
He too had turned to his then alpha mother, as his sons had done the same, but there had been no loving arms to hold him.
Instead, his alpha mother had spun around, heading for her car, slamming the door, leaving him behind, screeching tyres spinning on the gravel, sending up a thick cloud of dust and a shower of small stones.
He had turned then to his deranged father, but he too had turned away from him and walked back to the house as nothing had happened.
His parents had been too caught up in their own separate lives and their resentment of one another to have time for him.
He was 6 years old.
He then understood how money could affect a person, even if they were your family.
Blinking rapidly, Taehyung refocused on his current situation, eyes landing on Jungkook.
"There will be two conditions," he continued coldly, "The first is that you will sign a prenuptial agreement. Our relationship will be for the benefit of our sons, not the benefit of your bank account."
Appalled and hurt by this fresh evidence of how little he thought of him, Jungkook swallowed his pride and refocused on the situation he was in.
He is doing this for his boys, sighing through gritted teeth he responded, "And the second condition?"
"Your confirmation, a proof that you are taking birth control pills. I’ve seen the evidence of how little care you have for such matters. I have no wish for another child to be conceived as carelessly as the twins were."
Jungkook was taken by surprise with the second condition. He was also outraged to conceal his feelings.
"The hell? There is no question of that happening. The last thing I want is to have to share your bed... again."
Jungkook's outburst lashed the alpha's pride into a savage need to punish him.
"But you, Jungkook, will share it. And you will beg me to satisfy that hunger. I can tell your desire for sexual satisfaction has been honed in the arms of far too many men for you to be able to control it now."
