PICTURE US TOGETHER || JIKOOK ✅

3

Jungkook pov

Jennie  didn't reply. Her brow was knitted in a worried frown.

She stared out the windows at the Seoul buildings and traffic.

The sun was low in the afternoon sky, out of sight behind the tall buildings to the west.

Honestly, he didn't need this nonsense about the High Seer in his life.

Especially not at the end of a week packed with official events, balls, royal frivolity, and tense negotiations. He turned over the phone conversation with his advisor in his mind, trying to guess what this might be about.

He had no idea.

Soon, the palace and skyscraper came into view. The Court Palace complex took up two entire city blocks, connected by tunnels, bridges, sky ways, and even a tram.

The complex had both the royal palace built in the 1820s and Tower, the fifty-story skyscraper.

All palace personnel lived in the palace tower, from janitors to security guards to his advisors and their families.

They had a school on the second floor with grades kindergarten through middle school. A restaurant buffet on the third floor.

Gyms, tech centers, and even a convenience store. The palace was a city within a city with its own separate police force.

His driver pulled to the security gate.

Two heavily armed werewolves from palace security checked the driver's credentials, even though they recognized the limo.

The tight security was a necessary evil.

It kept all the wolves at the palace safe highborn and low, no matter what pack they belonged to.

The driver dropped them off at the palace elevator access from the huge underground parking garage.

The two of them rode the elevator to the palace's fourth floor. His sister was uncharacteristically quiet the entire time.

He wondered what was going through her mind right now, but decided he had plenty of other things to worry about. First and foremost, what the High Seer wanted after all these years.

The elevator doors opened on a wide, opulent hall with twenty-foot ceilings and chandeliers, artwork on the walls, crystal, gold, silver, jade, marble every where.

Everything one would expect in a palatial show of power and wealth.

He'd long ago grown so used to it that it made no impression on him any more. He didn't know why he was in such an introspective mood right now, but the whole damned thing struck him as unfortunate, even sad.

He glanced at his sister as they walked toward his chambers. "Thanks for coming to meet me. It was good seeing you."

She gave him an arch look. "No way, big brother. You're not getting rid of me that easy. I want to hear what this is all about."

"You're really testing the royal patience tonight. You know that?"

"You still love me, though. So every thing's peaches."

He grunted but let her tag along at his side.

Two security guards wearing suits were positioned outside his chambers.

One wolf remained at attention as the other opened the double doors for him.

his chief advisor, stood from her chair by the fireplace when he entered.