Book 1
Previously named as mafias chubby bride
[𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 ✔️] (rewriting)
Exuvia;
❝Shedding the past, being reborn into something new, even if painful.❞
He's a dangerous mafia boss.
She's a sweet, calm artist with a tender heart.
In a worl...
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J U N G K O O K
The pain in my arm barely registered.
What tore me open was her.
The way her tears fell — silently, desperately — like she was the one struck by bullets. She held my arm so tightly as if her trembling hands alone could stop the bleeding… or stop me from slipping away.
“You shouldn’t have come,” I forced out — voice hollow, shaking.
Because she shouldn’t have had to see this man I become. The man who bows… The man who bleeds on command… The man who fails to protect what he loves.
My father might’ve shot the bullets — yet every drop of blood felt like a consequence of letting her walk into my darkness.
Her darkness now.
Damn me.
Her eyes — wide, shattered with fear — looked like she believed I may disappear right in front of her. Like she’d lose the only anchor she dared to reach for.
“Ashley…” I whispered her name like a prayer I didn’t deserve.
She kept sobbing, “It’s my fault— because of me—” each word stabbing deeper than the wounds in my flesh.
I cupped her cheek with my clean hand — refusing to stain her with the blood of my world.
“You didn’t make this happen,” I said, breathing unevenly. “It’s not your fault he’s a monster wearing a father’s face.”
Her lips trembled. She still looked like she was losing me.
And maybe she was. If I didn’t fight back.
My voice dropped, thick with a vow that tasted like fire and fate:
“I will never let him own you. Not your name. Not your breath. Not a single heartbeat.”
She pressed her palm to my wound, terrified for me. “He shot you — Jungkook… twice…”
I leaned into her touch as if it was the only thing keeping me alive.
“Let him,” I rasped. “As long as you are untouched… he can tear me apart.”
