Be My Only Sin (TAEKOOK 18+) Complete

Chapter 14

"Were you ever going to tell me?" he asks quietly, face closed off.

"Erm, tell you what?" JungKook clears his throat, suddenly worried but trying to come off as nonchalant.

Taehyung pulls away from him and sits on his feet.

JungKook echoes his moves, sitting up to lean on his arm.

"That you're a demon. An Incubus I guess?" Taehyung says it with much more confidence than he is actually feeling.

"I-I-I..." Speechless is added to the list of things that JungKook never does unless he is with Taehyung.

"That means that you know I'm an Angel, right? I guess that also means that you've just gotten what you came here for..." He hangs his head and JungKook knows even less what to say.

He is still in the middle of coming up with a suitable response when the least expected thing happens.

Taehyung kisses him and says: "Thank you." The two little words laden with infinite possible meanings.

He turns away but before he can get up, JungKook grabs his wrist.

"Wh-What, you knew?"

Taehyung considers his answer for a long moment.

"I guess I kind of did, in one way or another, you merely confirmed my doubts just now when I saw your eyes." He speaks quietly, not really looking at JungKook.

"You knew... and you still..." he waves his hand across the bed as if the simple move could possibly encompass the profound thing that just happened between them. "You knew...and you still did this?!"

JungKook's voice rises the more significant the feeling of horror billows inside him and he doesn't quite understand why -after all, he won, he got what he wanted... he should be overjoyed.

Which is why the black, deep ache in his heart doesn't make any sense.

Regret.

Taehyung smiles. It is simultaneously the happiest and the saddest thing JungKook has ever seen and it burns the backs of his eyelids.

Taehyung leans down to JungKook and cups his cheeks. Looking directly into his soul (JungKook wonders if he still even has one after what he's done) Taehyung kisses him, gently, sweetly, with love and says:

"I have no regrets. Not one. Come." He pulls JungKook's toward the bathroom by the wrist.

"I really, really need a wash."

Even his giggle sounds tinted with sadness.

They carry on as if the revelation hasn't changed anything -but of course it has.

Taehyung is happy, curious, wants to know everything there is to know about everything -be it outside in the world or inside, with his body.

But there are those brief moments of sadness that stab JungKook's heart and he wishes more than anything that he could take them away, to make Taehyung happy, like he was when they first met, only a handful of days ago.

On their final night, Taehyung hardly speaks. JungKook doesn't know what to say either so he just sits with Taehyung, holding him, not saying a word, both of them just staring at the screen at a yet another film neither of them will ever remember. It's stupid really, to waste time on that but the silence is just too painful.