Forbidden Love ➸ Taekook ✓

- Fifty-first -

The door to the house slammed violently and a panicked Taehyung soon burst into the living room. It didn't take him long to find Jungkook sitting on the sofa, surrounded by Yoongi and Jimin, who were checking on him for the umpteenth time. The man literally threw himself on top of him, grabbing his face between his hands and turning it in all directions, checking every angle.

"My love, are you hurt?! Answer me, are you hurt anywhere?!" Taehyung exclaimed anxiously.

Jungkook shook his head, offering him a reassuring smile, and Taehyung kissed him furiously in response. He then took him in his arms, burying the boy's face in his chest. It seemed that life had decided to play with his poor heart. In the space of a week, he had almost lost the love of his life twice. When Yoongi had called to tell him, he had left Kim-Verse in a hurry, almost getting into at least three accidents to get here. He had wanted to take advantage of Jungkook's absence to go to the company and do some work there, but now he bitterly regretted his choices. He should never have let Jungkook get away from him.

He instinctively pulled him a little closer and felt the boy put his arms around him and hug him just as tightly. Taehyung wasn't the only one who was scared and needed reassurance. The man placed a kiss on the top of Jungkook's head, then turned to Yoongi and Jimin, who were watching them silently, looking both touched and a little sad.

"What exactly happened?" asked Taehyung.

He needed to know. Yoongi sighed.

"He was crossing the road when a car swerved and ran into him. I just had time to pull him and Jimin back. The car didn't stop, and I didn't have time to get the number plate."

"A hit-and-run driver?"

"I don't think so. It really looked like he was driving straight at Jungkook, it looked intentional to me."

Taehyung's eyes darkened as the boy in his arms began to tremble. So he hadn't been dreaming? That was the impression Jungkook had had when that car had approached him. As it came closer and closer, as he saw his death approaching, that's what he'd felt. That it wasn't a loss of control. That it wasn't an accident. That it was intentional.

"So someone really did try to kill me?" he murmured, his voice trembling. "B-But... why?"

There was no completely convincing answer in his eyes. The only logical explanation was this enemy they had discovered a few days earlier. Lim Kwan. But even then, it seemed incomprehensible. Why try to kill him if his aim was to get Jdesign? He could only get the company through marriage, and by killing him, he wouldn't get any.

Was it to intimidate him? No, it didn't look like it. There are other ways of intimidating. There... without Yoongi's intervention, he had no chance of survival. With the speed at which the car was going, the impact would have killed him instantly, or in the worst case scenario, he would have succumbed to his injuries. So if it really was Lim Kwan, why had he done it?

"Could it be Lim?" Jimin asked, as if reading his thoughts.

Yoongi nodded, but his eyebrows were furrowed.

"It's likely, but his motives seem suspect."

So he had come to the same conclusion as Jungkook. Which left them completely in the dark. And the boy was more insecure than ever. Now, even going shopping with his best friends was dangerous? Would he never be safe anywhere again? What if even at home, in the home Taehyung had built for him, danger lurked? What if something happened to Taehyung too? What if-

He felt a kiss being placed on his forehead, interrupting his train of thought. He looked up at Taehyung, whose eyes, black with anger, held something that Jungkook couldn't decipher immediately. Wait... Did he know something?

"Hyungie...?"

The man sighed, before helping Jungkook to make himself more comfortable on the sofa. He then stood up, running a nervous hand through his hair.

"When you disappeared, I went crazy. I had to find a way to bring you back, and I had to find a way that would last. So, on my own, I investigated. About this Lim Kwan. Until you came back, it hadn't given me anything more than his son's phone number. But this afternoon, a little after you'd left, I got some news. I found out... more. I was going to talk to you about it this evening, when you got home... But apparently, the discussion is going to be a bit hasty."

Everyone looked at him confused, and Jungkook was worried by the serious expression on his man's face. He wasn't going to like what he found out, but the last few days had been so hard on him that he wasn't sure he could take any more bad news. Especially as this one sounded enormous. But on the other hand... he couldn't wait when the truth was so close at hand.

"Is... is this the solution to all our problems...?" he asked in a small voice.

Taehyung gave him a reassuring smile, but Jungkook could see a mixture of sadness and unease.

"Surely, yeah..."

"But at what price... Is that it?"

Taehyung didn't answer, but the teenager had guessed his answer.

"I want to know, even if it's going to break me. After everything that's happened, I think I can handle it."

The man moved closer, kneeling in front of him, and gently took his face between his hands, his thumb caressing his cheek in a circular motion.

"Are you sure, my love?"

"Hm."

He got to his feet with a sigh.

"As you wish. Come into my office, everything's on my computer."

They all followed him upstairs, waiting patiently for him to turn on the computer and show them the famous file. Taehyung invited Jungkook to sit in the office chair, facing the screen. And when the document was finally in front of him, the teenager began to read it slowly and carefully. He left no detail out, moving from page to page, describing the progress of the investigation.

The first few pages were mainly about Lim. His past, the life he led today. He didn't know who had put the file together, but it was detailed. However, the file was beginning to reveal inconsistencies. Inconsistencies that Bangtan had already pointed out on the night of his kidnapping. The fact that Jdesign had been sabotaged. And above all, the fact that he couldn't have done it alone.

Someone had helped him. And his identity...

"It can't be true..." Jimin sighed, his eyes wide.

Yoongi remained silent, but the sinister look on his face gave away exactly what he was thinking.

Jungkook's gaze remained riveted on the name for a long time. It went round and round in his head, piercing his already bruised heart a little more each time. Then he stood up abruptly, rushing towards the exit.

"Darling, where are you going?!"

The boy stopped dead in his tracks and turned to Taehyung, looking into his worried eyes with anger.

"It's obvious, isn't it? I'm going to pay the Jeons a visit."

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Because this one is also a filler chapter, I will update tomorrow too!