Scintillating Ember Eyes || Tk

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•Chapter fifty one•

Then what exactly are you doing? 

"I left after knowing about him," Namjoon started. "I heard he was someone who was experiencing the worst pain anyone could imagine, of losing a mate you had completely given yourself to." 

Taehyung had a nervous look on his face as he looked at Namjoon, waiting until he said everything he has to. 

It was nerve-wracking. 

"Unlike you, he had himself agreed to the imprinting just so he could make sure that his parents wouldn't separate him from the person he loves. He was a beta; his chances of becoming the king were difficult, but it was a given that his elder alpha brother was going to rule. That's why, when his brother killed himself for a reason none other than Jin knows, everyone pressurized him to become the king." 

Namjoon glanced at Taehyung, patting his hair softly. "Can you guess what happened when Jin disagreed?" 

"Did his parents...do something to the person he loves?" Taehyung asked, face turning pale. 

Namjoon smiled, but it was clear that he held no happiness within himself. 

"Everyone expects the person who has everything to lose something too. Out of spite, the commoners always expect the royals to give up their everything for them. Why should the royals enjoy it? They have all the wealth they want, have the warmest rooms and softest bed; why can they not handle having their loved ones die before them?" 

Taehyung hissed at his words, closing his eyes shut tightly. "They did what?" he seethed. "Did they--" 

"They demanded Jin's mate to be hanged before the public after being lashed like the ones who have sinned the most are punished. Jin's mate's crime as they mentioned was to manipulate a royal into forgetting about their priority and swaying Jin from his responsibilities." 

Taehyung's heart squeezed on hearing those words. He wished strongly that it hadn't happened. even when his hyung just said that he liked Jin, he hoped that Jin hadn't had to go through such a horrendous thing. 

But it was obvious it happened. 

Nothing could've stopped it. 

If there was no Hoseok to Jimin, Jimin would've suffered so much more than anyone can imagine. The fear he felt on thinking about his future when he knew that the bastard king wanted him would've been unimaginable too. 

The vexation and fear Jin felt was something Taehyung never wanted t experience. 

"Jin's parents sided with the commoners. They ruthlessly did just as they wished and forced Jin to be a king. I heard from someone that they had made the palace guards drag Jin from his room where he was crying--just the evening when they hung his lover dead--to the throne and he was forced to sit there while they all said stuff about..." 

"His dead lover?" Taehyung scoffed painfully. "How could they do all that?" 

"From what I know, they had actually told him stuff to pacify him by telling him that he could find other people and that the world hadn't come to an end. bt while you're in such a state that you're blaming yourself for everything that happened and the imprinting bond is killing you from within, you cannot be convinced that things were done for making things better."