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EIGHT/

"even if your hands are shaking, and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open."

the digital clock showed an ominous three o' clock as it hung from the beige walls. the sun had appeared behind the heavy clouds, the rains had stopped for the time being.

a long queue of applicants were outside the office room.

two days ago, after vigorous questioning and checking of cctv cameras, taehyung and jeongguk had figured out that there were twenty to thirty people behind the stealing. they were kicked out of the company, after further approval from soomin, the news of new applicants was spread all throughout seoul. the media was still frantic about the recent declaration of the two ceos of kim corporations and jeon inc. working together.

most of the frauds were from the advertising team which was in fact a major blow cause without further promotion of the products, global units was in no way going to regain its position back in the tangled economy of seoul.

both young ceos were sitting beside each other with a fair amount of distance, as they interviewed the applicants. it was quite a sight, really, and quite an experience too when some dude started crying just because taehyung had harshly slammed his hand on the table. he was escorted outside and the trueblood had received a glare from the younger. a female omega even claimed jeongguk to be her mate and she too was dragged outside, multiple colourful words and screaming followed. another male beta started joking about how his toilet wasn't flushing cause it was stuck with his month old shit. jeongguk could sense that taehyung was crying very hard not to gag.
as the last applicant stood up and exited the room, jeongguk exhaled heavily and taehyung leaned against the chair, a hand massaging his forehead. they both knew that only a handful were actually suitable for the job, but they were not so sure themselves.
"what do you think?" jeongguk spoke, swivelling his chair to face the other, his knee touching the end of the other chair's plastic handle.
"i'm never doing that again." taehyung mumbled, still pressing his index finger and thumb against the side of his throbbing forehead.
jeongguk chuckled, clearly amused as he picked up the list and started skimming his eyes through the names, chair still facing the older, thighs parted.
"are you going to finalise the candidates?" taehyung spoke up, looking at jeongguk who was so engrossed in the reading the remarks of each person, merely hummed.
taehyung sighed and shifted closer to the other, trying to read the name list when he accidentally brushed his knee against the other's inner thigh. jolts of electricity ran through the younger's body as he sat up erect, pushing his chair away from the other. he could say taehyung freaked out too, as he shifted away, eyes slightly wide.
jeongguk was trying hard to reduce his heartbeat which was racing at an alarming rate.
he just touched your thigh, jeongguk. calm the fuck down.
but he couldn't, no matter how much he wanted to concentrate on the remarks written, after taehyung had muttered a quick 'sorry' and shifted further away, going through a copy of the list, jeongguk's mind kept drifting to how foreign it felt.
it was not the first time he had felt a man's touch. the younger was bisexual and he embraced his sexuality wholeheartedly.
he had dated a senior back during busan at his high school, but it barely lasted for a month. the guy had left him as soon as he had found his own mate.
adolescent jeongguk was devastated.
hanseul was the first person he ever loved but he was a fool to believe that he reciprocated.
he didn't pay attention to jimin's warning regarding hanseul finding his mate one day and eventually leaving jeongguk. he was so fucking naive even when that prick had promised him that he would never leave the younger he shouldn't have believed any of these lies. maybe that is what it was. maybe true love never did exist. maybe it was always beautifully decorated lies. ever since the alpha had started applying scent blockers. he doesn't need anybody and even if he finds his mate (which he was sure he wouldn't) it will be difficult for the other person to deal with his cocky ass attitude and he would end up leaving anyways.
instantly, he glanced at the ravenette who was typing away on his phone, the namelist marked and kept underneath the bunny paper weight.
he had heard from his father about how truebloods were destinied to be mateless. he recalls this one story his mother had told him during his bedtime about trueblood alphas and how ruthless they were. merciless and born for killing. these truebloods were cursed with never having a destinied mate. in turn, moonblood omegas were created who were as rare and beautiful as the angels, who corrected all the bad done by the truebloods. some of these truebloods couldn't help but fall in love with these exquisite omegas. seeing how happy these menacing wolves were a few were blessed with mates, while majority carried the curse.
when the five year old jeongguk had asked whether the good truebloods existed still, eunae had smiled and said that all of them had been wiped off from the phase of the earth, only the mateless ones remained.
silly story really but no one dared to oppose the decade old legends, the alpha couldn't help but remember his mother, his heart clenching with pain but his mind was still a mess. did those sparks mean something?
maybe, it was just a misinterpretation. maybe jeongguk had to get laid.
so he pulled out the paper from the weight and scanned through the list, the tension still lingering slightly.

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[a/n]

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