HATE TO LOVE YOU || TAEKOOK || JIKOOK || MAFIA AU

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*Same day*

Since last night, Jimin had confined himself to his room.

At breakfast also, he had put on a façade of normalcy, but only Jungkook knew he wasn't fine. Jungkook tried to approach him, but Jimin gently brushed it off saying,

"You don't need to worry, Jungkook. I'm fine." The convincing smile Jimin was wearing made Jungkook to not dig further.

Well also He didn't know how to talk about it to jimin, he didn't know what to say to him that why was he bothered by his sudden silence.

Only if he knew, how much that sweet smile of Jimin concealed a deep-seated hatred for him.

Jungkook wanted to understand the nightmare that had disturbed Jimin so deeply, causing him to hurt himself. He didn't know the turmoil Jimin's heart was enduring, but he wished he could find out, from no one but directly from Jimin.

Yet, he was speechless.

So, just like that whole day, Jimin remained secluded in his room.

Hiding not from others but from his own consuming guilt. Being with Jungkook had already triggered painful memories. He would definitely come up with a plausible excuse for Jungkook's fake concern later yet for now he couldn't bear to be near him for a while.

No matter how many of Jungkook's heroic deeds Jimin had witnessed, no matter how often he'd seen him save lives, for Jimin, Jungkook was the worst. Despite Jungkook ruling the black throne not to take lives but to save them, despite his institutes serving humanity, despite his differences from other mafias, Jimin couldn't overlook the darkness.

It wasn't easy for a senior superintendent officer like Jimin to ignore the positive aspects, even when he'd never encountered anyone like Jeon Jungkook in his 26 years of life.

Jungkook, who would sacrifice lives to save others, who faced his enemies with the fearlessness of a Greek god, who wielded power with a deep understanding of its true purpose-yet in Jimin's eyes, he was always unforgivable.

Jungkook, who could change the game of power with a snap of his fingers, was not entangled in the filth of sex trafficking in an era where parents could sell their children for mere money. He was giving those children new lives, because he was only bound only by his own dynamic rules.

But...

If only Jungkook hadn't inflicted the damage he did three years ago. Jimin might have been able to overlook everything, but the memory of those unbearable screams and pleas when he was late to save his sister haunted him every night, trapping his life in an endless loop of nightmares.

Jimin couldn't even forgive himself for what had happened.

So, sparing the person who had caused him such pain and agony wouldn't be fair, right?

Since he had placed a foot in this mansion, Jimin had spent a lot of time thinking, eventually concluding why Jungkook was the way he was now.

So he concluded that this mafia boss simply wanted to hide from the crimes of his past.

His current actions were a facade to make people believe he was not a rapist, but a savior, that he wasn't a murderer, but a ruler of justice. To make people forget that he wasn't the person in that video of him...

Also that he wasn't the person who had hired a corrupt lawyer, just like himself, to fight his case, avoiding a prison sentence.

Yes, jeon Jungkook was a master of changing the game, but only for his own benefit.