Vengeance ✔️

Chapter 2

A gasp fills the room as the man in the bed breaks out in cold sweat. "Jungkook. Wake up. Jungkook!" The woman beside the man in the bed gently shakes him to wake him from his nightmare.

"Tae!" Jungkook shouts and sits up with sweat dripping down his body. He quickly wraps his wife in his arms as he shakes from the terror of his nightmare.

"It's okay. I am here." His wife whispers and gently kisses his cheek. "I am right here."

"I am sorry. I did not mean to wake you." Jungkook mutters and clings to his wife.

"Was it the same nightmare?" The woman asks as she looks into her husband's terrified eyes.

"Yes." Jungkook sighs and presses a gentle kiss on his wife's forehead. "I am sorry that I keep having nightmares recently." Jungkook mumbles and lies down with his wife in his arms.

"No. There is nothing to apologize for. When I have nightmares, you always comfort me and sing to me." She hums and gently kisses his chest. "Go to sleep. I am right here." 

"Taeri."

"Hm?"

"I killed hundreds of people in my nightmare," Jungkook whispers as a tear trickles down the side of his face.

"That is the past. You were in anguish. I do not blame you." Taeri hums and gently brushes her fingers through her husband's hair. "Sleep."

"I am sorry, Tae," Jungkook mumbles as his eyes droop shut.

As the couple sleeps in each other's embrace, there is a sharp tap on their apartment door. Jungkook quickly sits up and looks at the time on the clock on the nightstand. When the tap echoes through the quiet apartment once again, Jungkook grabs his gun and carefully gets out of bed.

"Who is knocking at two in the morning?" Jungkook mutters and cautiously walks to the apartment door. "And why did I grab my badge?" 

When Jungkook looks through the peek hole, he sees a woman on the other side. Feeling the hair on the back of his neck stand up, he carefully backs away from the door.

"Kook, what is it?" Taeri asks as Jungkook enters their room.

"There is a woman I do not know at the front door. Something does not feel right." Jungkook explains as Taeri grabs her gun.

"Is she from one of my cases?" Taeri asks as she looks at her husband with worry.

"I really am not sure. Let me call the chief to send officers to our apartment." Jungkook mumbles and walks over to the phone. Being detectives, they have many enemies.

As Jungkook calls the police chief, Taeri shuts their bedroom door and hooks a chair under the door handle to prevent someone from opening the bedroom door. With her hand gripping her gun, Taeri points her gun at the bedroom door just in case someone decides to bust into their home.

"Chief is going to send some officers to investigate the woman," Jungkook explains and stands beside his wife.

"King Jungkook, I know you are in there~" The woman outside of their apartment sings as she knocks once again.

"King?" Taeri whispers in surprise and looks up at her husband.

"Tae, stay behind me," Jungkook mutters as flashes of his dead wife from the past run through his mind.

"I can smell my mother's blood on you." The woman hisses and places her hand on the door handle of their apartment door.

With a spark of magic, the door explodes, so Jungkook protectively stands in front of his wife. He knows that his past life has hunted him down.