Pride | A BTS Hybrid AU |

Chapter 16

    Rayne was caught off guard when Jungkook picked her up like that, and she was ready to fight when she felt his hand come down on her ass. Jerk.

She growled and wiggled, trying to get down to exact her revenge, whatever that would be. When that technique didn't work, she took her turn slapping at his ass and trying to pinch and tickle his sides to get some sort of reaction, again to no avail.

Jungkook marched around the side of the house and straight to Rayne's poolhouse. He slid open the door and went inside with Rayne still over his shoulder. He closed and locked the door and closed the curtain before slapping her ass again and marching over to her bed.

The moment he set her back on her feet, he pulled the t-shirt she'd put on over her bathing suit up and over her head.

"Jungkook, what the hell?!?!" she screeched as he gently pushed her back on the bed and pulled off the shorts she wore. He held the two offending pieces away from his body with his nose scrunched up in distaste as he stomped back over to the door. The sound of him unlocking the door and sliding it open only to throw her clothes outside seemed loud in the space.

Instead of the fear she would have thought she'd feel at his actions, Rayne was amused. Jungkook was not Richard. In fact, as annoyed as he was at that moment, and all of the growling that was coming from him, there was not a hint of violence in his scent or demeanor.

He yanked the curtains back in place after re-locking the door and turned back to the bed where his challenging Mate sat with her arms crossed over her chest.

He lowered his head and kept eye contact as he stalked toward her. He pulled his shirt over his head and threw it behind himself without a glance to where it went.

"You dared touch an unmated male. You wrapped your arms around him, and covered yourself with his scent again."

"Jungkook, I was just thanking a friend."
He made a dramatic show of untying his swim trunks,

"This is a challenge I cannot turn a blind eye to. Our Mating is not complete. My scent is not yet on you or in you, and you dared embrace another male?"

His tongue ran along the inside of his cheek as he thought about his plan of action.

Obviously letting his woman run wild and challenge him constantly was going to have to stop if he didn't show her the boundaries. He knew better than to try and tame her. She was wild and willful, and he liked her that way... but, the lines needed to be drawn for her to know how far she could go.

Rayne bit her lip and narrowed her eyes, trying to decide whether it was time to fully accept her Mate or see if she could push the envelope one more time.

Jungkook smirked. The look on her face plainly told him what she was thinking, and that made his decision for him. He shoved his shorts to the floor and then slowly knelt on the bed in front of her.

Rayne sat criss-cross applesauce, frozen with indecision. Her whole body wanted to throw caution to the wind and complete their mating. The fear that had her running and challenging him at every turn seemed to have shrunk enough that she didn't react in anger, or lash out when he grabbed the sides of her tankini bottoms and pulled them off.

She gasped in a breath as she fell back onto the disarray of the unmade bedding.

Jungkook pushed her legs apart and inhaled deeply. His smile was predatory, and his growl was one of satisfaction. He looked his fill while the scent of his woman, a scent he never in his life could have imagined would mean so much to him, worked its way into his system.

His gaze slowly inched its way up her body, and by the time his eyes met hers, his smile had turned mischievous,

"Hmmm. Part of you is still hidden from me. I don't like it."