Chapter - 16

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"As you might have guessed already, I'm the heir who's deadbody was never found along with the rest of the family members' bodies." Taehyung looked at Jungkook with an unreadable gaze.

The empty look in those pair of intimidating eyes made Jungkook look away.He believed Taehyung wasn't a bad man.He thought the elder might have taken the spot of a mafia leader after his ancestors just like it happens in fictions and movies.He thought Taehyung was brought up just to become a ruthless leader in the future.

But he could never even think of the man as the heir of the Kims who's been declared dead years ago.He couldn't even imagine the son of someone like Kim Daehyung and Kim Yejin whom the citizens of their country literally worshipped for their good works, being in the mafia world, that too ruling it.

Was it a live example of how cruel fate could be?

Or was it just Taehyung's fate......

"It all happened a few days after my fifteen years old birthday." Taehyung said as he spaced out, probably arriving on the cursed date when he lost his everything...

Jungkook didn't interrupt the man in front of him even for once, letting him speak everything he has been carrying inside him, everything that have turned him into a totally different person from the one his parents' expectations.

"To keep me away from publicity, mom-dad bought a house near the school I was going to.I used to stay there with Choi uncle, one of the most trusted workers of my family.He wasn't a family man.So, it was just me and him in the house.He took care of me like his own child.Mom often visited me while dad could visit me only during weekends.I missed them a lot but even I felt that it was better than being the center of attraction everywhere.Everyone in the school knew me as Choi uncle's son which was better for me."

"Just like my other birthdays, I also spent the fifteenth one with my family.That day, my parents asked me to stay with them for the next few days.I obeyed, feeling happy to be with them.I was having my winter vacation anyways.After ten days, Choi uncle came to take me back in the evening.We were about to head back when it all happened."

Taehyung stopped speaking just to take some deep breaths, his jaw clenched as if trying to control his rage.His eyes were turning red while he fisted his palms with so much force that his knuckles turned white.

Jungkook who was noticing everything silently, held out his shaky hands and caressed Taehyung's fisted palms in an attempt to calm him down at least a bit.At that moment, he felt like giving Taehyung the comfort he was in need of.He tried not to tear up when he felt Taehyung immediately taking his hands in his slightly bigger ones, almost squishing them in the process.

Taehyung did need comfort!

"You don't have to tell m-"

"No, I want to." Taehyung cut off Jungkook's sentence in the middle as he looked at the younger with an unreadable gaze.Jungkook nodded his head lowly as he looked back at the elder, letting him know that he was there to listen to everything Taehyung had to say...

Flashback :

"That day, Lee Wonwo, my father's best friend whom he entrusted with everything he had, the friend who was more like a brother to my dad visited us.

I was with my mom who was telling me how much she'd miss my presence beside her when I would  go back.Well, I was all ready to go back to my apartment at that moment since Choi uncle called me beforehand to say that he was coming to pick me up within an hour.

Mom and I got alarmed when we heard a loud sound of something breaking.We ran out of my room to see dad looking furious while his best friend laying on the floor.He had a busted lip which indicated that my father had hit him before we came.

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