The Prince & The Spy | Jungkook x Reader

20 - The Revelation

I balled my hands into fists and turned to Taehyung.

      'You said you also cared for her how can you be so calm right now?'

Taehyung eyes widened slightly in shock by my confrontation.

     'Emotions will not get us further right now, but will only be an obstacle' he replied but his voice wasn't as stable as mr Moons, showing me some form of worry.

I took a few deep breaths.

     'Fine. Then let's "calmly" decide what we are going to do.'

     'Okay let's move ourselves to the main room shall we?' Father suggested and we all nodded. Yeonjun, Jiya, mother father, me, taehyung and mr moon. 

Mr Moon closed his hands. 'We will send them a message back that one of us will deliver the cash whenever they want' we in the meantime will put all our resources to track where this box came from.

    'That's it?' I asked frustrated because it was again not a solution to get y/n back.

    'I am afraid there is not much more to do'

We talked a bit more about the following steps and what we could or couldn't do and eventually Taehyung and Mr Moon had left, they would continue the search. But all we could do was wait now.

An hour later there was a response.

We are tired of your stalling and we are tired of waiting, we need to agree on a place and time with you alone otherwise you'll receive such a present every day. 

I asked everyone to come together again. I showed them the text.

     'We are going to do what they are asking' I stated calmly.

      'They only orchestrated this plan to lure you out of the palace into an unsafe situation, you get that right?' my father asked.

     'yes I do, and I don't care.'

Father scoffed 'I suspected that you fell for her but not this hard. do I have to remind you how valuable you are?'

     'And what? she isn't?' I asked with a raised voice.

There was a pause.

    'If they hurt her they hurt me!' I shouted angry,

Father did not respond immediately and mother Yeonjun and Jiya all looked at me shocked as it was probably the first time I openly shouted at him.

    'You don't speak to me that way, I am your father and more importantly your king. and regarding the plan, we will pay the ransom but its not you who will do it.'

    'Then I will renounce my claim to the throne.' 

I had thought about this for a while, it wasn't an idle thread I would actually go through with it, that was the only way that it would work, only if I had convinced myself to do it. ,

     'What?' my entire family simultaneously exclaimed.

     'Yes, if we don't do what they ask for in order to save y/n I will publicly announce I will take a step back.'

     'You're bluffing' my father indicated.

     'You think? I am aware the throne is my duty but y/n is a living person that I love, and I will not sit back while she is tortured and perhaps killed'

     'Love?' it was mothers fragile voice, probably suffering from some painful confusion about all this new information.

      'That's not the focus right now we need to save her.'