Vegas Ruby🥀 | Taennie ff |

Chapter 18

"I knew you could never love me, but it was my bittersweet choice to continue loving you." 

– Unknown

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Ruby

Jihyo gave me a look. "Are you nervous too?"

I laughed. "Nervous doesn't even begin to cover it. I don't think I'll be any good at fighting." I paused. "But why are you nervous? I thought you've practiced with Namjoon before."

"A few times, yes, but we've always been alone. Now there will be people watching."

I nodded. I wished Taehyung had chosen to practice alone with me, but I knew he had a lot on his plate because of his upcoming fight against that giant man.

When we stepped out into the training hall, my eyes had trouble taking it all in. The chandelier dangling from the ceiling, the red and gold wallpaper, the broken roulette tables, the beautiful dirty, seashell-shaped windows ... It was so typically Falcone to choose something as flashy as an abandoned casino building for their fighting gym.

The men had already gathered around the boxing ring. They were only in fight shorts, and my heart thundered faster at the sight of all that muscle and scars. Even Jimin was muscular for an almost fourteen-year-old.

"Thank God, not the cage," Jihyo muttered, and I gave her a questioning look. She smiled. "Namjoon always insists we work out in the cage, and it honestly gives me the creeps."

My eyes wandered over to the cage, and I had to agree. I was already nervous as it was.

Taehyung touched my hip when I arrived beside him. "Jihyo will go first because she already has some practice."

Trying to hide my relief, I nodded.

Namjoon parted the ropes for Jihyo, who climbed in with a nervous look toward the Falcone brothers. "Are you all going to watch?"

"No," Taehyung said. "I'm going to attack you."

Jihyo's eyes widened. "What? I thought Namjoon would train with me?"

Namjoon shook his head. "Not this time. Being faced with an opponent that makes you nervous is closer to reality."

Taehyung swung himself over the rope and faced Jihyo, his arms hanging down at his side in a relaxed way. "Watch closely, Ruby," he said.

I nodded.

Taehyung lunged at Jihyo, and I noticed Namjoon's body rocking forward slightly. Jihyo let out a surprised cry when Taehyung's hand clamped down her wrist. He jerked her toward him, and then she was already on her back. He knelt between her legs.

"Jihyo," Namjoon hissed. "Remember what I taught you."

Jihyo began struggling, but Taehyung pressed her wrists into the ground above her head, lowering himself, parting her legs further with his muscular thighs.

Jungkook made a buzzer noise. "There's no way for you to escape now.

You acted too late. Now he's got you exactly where he wants you."

I shivered.

"He would have to open his pants. That might give her an opening to attack him with her free hand," I said.