Pride | A BTS Hybrid AU |

Chapter 10

**Mature Content**

    Rayne was only gone for 20 minutes, and was in a much brighter mood when she returned from Bam's ranch with five dozen eggs. In fact, she was whistling merrily when she came into the kitchen with her load.

"Oh, thank goodness you're back already! I'm starving!" Scarlett grabbed three of the cartons and stopped to eye her sister suspiciously. She took a deep breath and her eyes narrowed before she quietly said,

"Taking this thing a little too far, aren't you?"

Rayne smiled with mock innocence, "I have no idea what you mean, dear sister."

But the man intended to be hers, who was sitting at the table by the window, was seething. His Mate just walked into this house with another man's scent all over her. His nostrils flared and his eyes narrowed on his challenging woman. His angry snarl was loud enough to echo around the room, and brought everyone, but Rayne, to a halt.

Every other man and woman froze and watched the angry male hesitantly, while Rayne started whistling merrily again as she put away the remaining eggs.

She was well aware of Jungkook's anger, and she thought it was kind of funny. She was only gone for 20 minutes. What in the world could he have thought happened? In truth, the opportunity came when Bam asked her to hold his jacket while he chased down a wayward chicken. She discreetly rubbed said jacket into her torso, knowing that his scent would piss off her Mate.

Now she had an enraged, hormonal, instinct driven lion hybrid prowling around the kitchen, snarling like she was trying to take a fresh kill away from him.

Rayne closed the refrigerator and turned to the snarling male, she batted her eyes and gave him the most syrupy sweet voice she could,

"Awe. What's the matter, Mate?" The last word was said with emphasized sarcasm, "Something bothering you?"

Jungkook was unable to put into words the rage he was feeling at that moment. While everyone else shrank away from him as he slowly prowled around the kitchen island, His Mate stood tall and proud with a look of knowing on her face.

"You know, that jog this morning doesn't seem to have been enough for you to work off your aggression. You should probably take your big, bad Alpha self on another run. I hear it helps."

She kept direct eye contact as she reached and took an apple off of the island, then turned her back to him and sauntered out the back door. It was a lovely morning, and a bit of yoga on her paddleboard sounded like just the thing she needed.

It was times like this that she was thankful that she always wore a bathing suit underneath her clothes in the summertime. You never knew when you would need to jump in the water, or paddle away from your angry mate before he could get his hands on you. She chuckled at that thought as she tossed her keys and phone in her cottage on the way by. Of course, now she was curious just how far she'd be able to push him before he snapped.

After seeing Jungkook flaunting his far too sexy body that morning, she decided her yoga would be done best in her smallest bikini... just to piss him off.

Rayne stripped off her shorts and t-shirt and left them on the shore before she took her apple and paddled out far enough for the water to be deep enough for when she inevitably fell in, placed her paddle across the front of her board, sat and ate her apple. Despite the upheaval of emotions that came with meeting her Mate, she felt serene as she basked in the morning sun.

Back in the house, though, Seokjin and Namjoon struggled to calm the younger man, although they agreed that his woman was in need of a good spanking.