IRREPLACEABLE || JIKOOK ✅

11.

JUNGKOOK POV

he pulled through the gates at his cliff-side home and drove
on toward the towering house.

The modern structure all metal and glass was quite opposite
the lake house and a jarring reminder that he was back
to reality.

Another jarring reminder he'd been dragged from a dream
was Hobi's car parked before
the house.

I'm not ready for this.

As he climbed out of the little
red coupe, hobi came rushing down the front stairs, tears streaming down his face.

"You're alive!"

"Oh, thank God!"

The beta slammed into him, wrapping him in a tight hug.

"I was so worried, I thought you'd had an accident."

"I've been calling you for days."

He extracted himself from
hobi's hold.

Had Joon let him stay?

"I said you needed to be
gone when I got back."

"Why are you here?"

Hobi frowned. "I knew once
you cooled off, you'd be fine."

"But then you didn't come home..."

The waterworks began again.

"And I was terrified something had happened."

"You said you'd be gone the weekend and it's been six
days, No word. No anything."

Hobi punched his arm.

"How could you? Was this
some kind of punishment?"

Jungkook stared down at the beta, confused.

"You're not going to worm
your way back in this time."

"We're too good for one
another for this to be over."

hobi said, tilting his head
with a smile to his lips.

"You must realize that."

"No... we're not good for one another." Jungkook said, too exhausted to continue this argument over and over.

"We have similar friends... similar interests.."

"we grew up in the same world, Together, we're stronger."

The words sounded so familiar
to the ones his grandfather
had said just a week before.

Who was coaching who?

Had the mating idea even been his grandfather's or was it hobi'?

"I mean nothing to you besides my money and social standing."

"And the chances you might
bag yourself an alpha." He smiled, suddenly realizing
the truth to that statement.

"That's it, isn't it? You want to
be able to say you got an alpha, even though you're only a beta."

Hobi's face twisted in anger before he took a step back.

"Now you're just being cruel."

"Cruel?" Jungkook chuckled.

"I hit the nail on the
head, didn't I?"

Hobi scowled but remained silent.

"Pack your shit and get out
Or I'll call the guard to come
drag you out of here, kicking
and screaming if I have to."