5

The night in Seoul was warm, the soft air stroking Jungkook's skin as he and alpha Taehyung walked from their car that dropped them off to the exclusive modern building that housed Yoongi and Jimin's apartment. 

They had spent the fun evening with Taehyung's pack brother and his mate, introducing them and a small impromptu introduction of how their pack hierarchy works. Yoongi as a musician has played his slow songs, as per his husband's request, to make their gathering more intimate. 

Jungkook had fun during their brief visit, Jimin, and Yoongi were great, talented and prominent people. He ended up inviting them over to the villa in their free time for tomorrow morning they would return to the villa.

Of course, Jungkook was looking forward to seeing the twins.

On the way up to the place in the lift, Jungkook pleaded mentally, "Please let everything be alright. Let things work out for… for all of us."

And by all Jungkook included the new life Jungkook was carrying as they entered the apartment building Taehyung reached for Jungkook's hand. 

Neither of them said anything, Jungkook's heart leapt and then thudded into the side of his chest. He planned to tell Taehyung whilst he had had the chance. He slipped out into a chemist's shop and bought a pregnancy testing kit to be doubly sure. 

The omega would wait until they were back to use it and then he would tell the alpha, but not now because Jungkook wanted tonight to be very special.

Tonight Jungkook wanted to make love with Taehyung, knowing that he loved him.

In the small sitting room of the apartment, Taehyung removed the jacket of his linen suit, the small action tightened the fabric of his shirt against the muscles of his back, the omega gaze absorbed the movement, the now-familiar ache of longing softening his belly and then spreading swiftly through him.

The omega's sudden need to breathe more deeply, to take in oxygen, lifted his chest against the lining of his clothes, causing already aroused and sensitive nipples to react even more to the unintentional drag. 

When Taehyung straightened up and turned around, he could see their swollen outline pressing eagerly. The alpha's own body reacted to their provocation, confirming the need for Jungkook he had already known he felt.

Quickly Jungkook turned towards the door, not wanting Taehyung to see his expression, but to his astonishment, before he could reach it the alpha said quietly, "You looked beautiful tonight."

The words were nothing, and yet they were everything. 

Taehyung was telling Jungkook that he looked beautiful, he couldn't move, couldn't do anything other than stare back, torn between longing and disbelief.

The alpha came towards him, standing in front, lifting his hands to slide the fabric off the omega's shoulders as he told him softly, "But you will look even more beautiful without it."

Jungkook trembled from head to foot, hardly daring to breathe as Taehyung unbuttoned his button-down shirt to let it fall to the floor, cupping the side of his face and kissed him.

Taehyung was kissing him as the omega kissed back. 

Kissing deeply and holding him passionately, feeling all the omega's doubts and fears slip away as he claimed him. The alpha's lightest touch made his body shudder softly and swiftly, building paroxysms of pleasure.

The sensation of Taehyung's hands on his body, shaping and caressing it, carried Jungkook on a surging tide of desire, as a tribute offered to an all-powerful conqueror. 

Beneath the alpha's fiery mouth, Jungkook moaned in heightened pleasure when his thumb-pad rubbed over the omega's nipple, hot, sweet and aching need pulsing beneath his touch.

Jungkook's body was clamouring for him to free it, to lay it bare to his eyes, his hands, his mouth, so that he could plunder its desire, feed it and feast on it until Jungkook could endure the ache of Jungkook own need no longer and cling to him.

In the deepest hidden places of his heart recognised that, even if Jungkook had hidden that need from himself.

The sensation of Taehyung's lips caressing their way down his body was a tender caress after the white-sultry heat that had gone before it. His lips drifted across his lower belly and the ache pulsed and swelled in a fresh surge of need that shocked the omega.

He had hungered, ached, and denied that aching, the yearning for him, he hungered to have him desire him back like this, without the harsh bitterness of his anger. 

The omega has been so desperate for his possession and for the pleasure it had brought him.

Jungkook was his, Taehyung allowed himself to glory in that primaeval knowledge that his body was on fire for him, aching beyond bearing with his need for him, but he wanted to draw out their pleasure, to savour it and store the unique bouquet of it in his memory forever.

Jungkook's toes curled as the last explosion that would give him all, making the omega helpless under the power of the alpha's possession and his need for him.

He bent and picked Jungkook up, carrying Jungkook through into the bedroom, their gazes meeting and locking in the sensually charged warmth of the dimly lit room.

"I've never forgotten you, do you know that? I've never been able to get your memory out of my head. The way you trembled against me when I touched you, the scent of your skin, the quick, unsteady way you breathed when I did this."

Jungkook fought to suppress his heated breathing as Taehyung caressed the side of his neck and then stroked his fingertips down the length of his naked spine, then lifted his arm and began kissing the inside of the omega's wrist. "Yes, just like that."

Jungkook's nipples yearned for his touch, nipples throbbing and swollen that hardly contain their readiness within their skin.

He had never known that it was possible for him to feel like this, Taehyung acknowledged. The sensual sweetness of Jungkook's response to him was crashing through all the defences he had raised against the way the omega was making him feel, his erection and its sensual desire for his mate.

Slowly, the omega's fingertips traced the length and thickness of his flesh. Everything was visible in the soft parting of Jungkook's mouth, the brief flick of his tongue-tip against red lips and the darkening gaze.

Jungkook looked up at him and leaned forward to kiss each exposed flesh the unfastened button gave, stroking a tongue-tip along his collarbone, breathing in the pheromone-laden scent of the alpha's body as it shuddered beneath his caress. 

Taehyung's chest was hard-muscled, his nipples flat and dark, the omega reached out and touched the hardened tip with his fingertip, exploring it with the tip of his tongue.

Taehyung prided himself on being a skilled lover, but he had never been in this position before. 

The alpha had never felt like this before.

It did not prepare him for his reaction to the way he felt.

This was what his heart had been yearning for, this giving and receiving, this intimacy with no barriers, this man above all. 

Jungkook was everything he wanted and more, Taehyung acknowledged, making his slow voyage of rediscovery over Jungkook's silky body.

Impatiently Taehyung tore his shirt and both their trousers whilst Jungkook explored him and with impatience, he took the omega in his arms to kiss him full force with his building needs.

He couldn't prepare for the way it powered his desire to a level he had never known, threatening his self-control, creating a desire to possess and pleasure every part of the omega, to bring Jungkook to orgasm repeatedly until he possessed pleasure and the omega with it. 

Jungkook clung to him, returning his kiss with equal passion, sighing his approval when his hands cupped his ass. 

Taehyung wanted to imprint himself on Jungkook, his desire that no other man could ever unlock its sweetness and fed the fast-surging appetite of arousal on the sound of the omega's unsteady breathing with sobs of pleasure, as he sucked on the hard peaks of his nipples and kneaded the hardened flesh of his cock.

Lightning-fast bolts of almost unbearable erotic arousal sheeted through Jungkook's body with every tug of Taehyung's mouth on his nipples, the alpha's free hand snaked its way into going deep inside his entrance, his heated core pulsed, beating unabashed as he arched up against his mate this wasn't enough to appease the savage dragging need possessing the alpha.

Taehyung could feel the ache within his flesh to a maddening desire to take Jungkook quickly, making him fight for self-control that threatened to desert him when he parted the swollen hole of the omega's ass to find the wetness within them, his fingertips rimmed the opening, eliciting lewd moans.

Jungkook could feel his body opening in eagerness, hunger and heard a sound of agonised relief bubbling in the alpha's throat when he slid one, two and then three fingers slowly inside, scissoring their way to open.

A fresh lightning bolt shot through him, Taehyung could feel the omega's need in his flesh and hers as the movement of his body quickened and tightened.

He then opened the omega's legs and entered himself, his breath catching on a grateful lust-filled moan of relief when Taehyung responded to his need with the firm pressure of his hand over the omega's cock.

Even before Jungkook cried out to him he was aware of his impending release, the fierce pleasure of his orgasm filled his own body with satisfaction, swelling his cock to a hard urgency to play its part in more of that pleasure, nails digging into his flesh to tell him what the other was feeling.

The growing pleasure of Jungkook's wanton flesh cherished with hot swirls of desire painted on his ass and inner thighs by the stroke of his tongue that searched out desire even more intimately until its movement against the hard swollen pulse of the omega's cock had him abandoning self-control once more and offering himself up to his mate.

This time Jungkook orgasm was short and sharp, leaving Jungkook trembling on the edge of something more. 

Agonised by the ache of that feverish need, Jungkook reached out to touch Taehyung's body, but he stopped him, shaking his head as he told Jungkook thickly, "No. Don't. Let me do this instead."

Jungkook could feel the glide of his body against his own, his cock hard, thick and slick, probing the eager moistness of his asshole as muscles quickened in eager longing, matching each slow, deliberate, ever deep, hard thrust of his body.

The way it had taken Jungkook beyond that small sharp pain which had caught at Jungkook breath and held Jungkook motionless beneath his thrust for a handful of seconds before Jungkook arousal had made its demands on him, Jungkook muscles softening to enfold him, just as they were doing now, then firming to caress him, Jungkook body driven by its need to have him ever deeper within him.

His self-control, his inner self stripped away, taking from him his power to do anything other than submit to his own need as it rolled over him and picked him up with its unstoppable force, as the fresh orgasm took them both over the edge, his body flooding with his release.

The omega's body still racked by small aftershocks of the seismic pleasure that had erupted inside, Jungkook laid silently against Taehyung's huffing chest and felt their racing heartbeats gradually slowing.

Tonight they had shared something special, something precious, Jungkook thought, and the omega's heart overflowed with love.

~~~

The twins' matter-of-fact response to their return to the villa proved how comfortable they'd been in Hoseok's care.

Jungkook reflected ruefully in the bedroom, as he changed out of the clothes whilst Taehyung had gone straight to his office to check his emails.

Jungkook saw his bag and took out the pregnancy testing kit he had bought from Seoul, the omega's hands trembled slightly as he took it from its packaging, eyes blurring with emotion as he read the instructions.

Things had changed since Jungkook had first realised that he might be pregnant again, Jungkook tried to reassure himself.

Six years ago when Jungkook had done this, he had been so afraid, sick with fear, dreading the result, still, he was equally anxious now, but for very different reasons.

When Hoseok had referred to his love for Taehyung, originally Jungkook had wanted to deny it but once that truth had laid bare, he wasn't been able to ignore it.

Of course, Jungkook loves Taehyung.

Now, just thinking about the alpha, and mate, filled Jungkook with aching longing and pain.

'Maybe this baby would build the bridge between. Jungkook had begged him to possess his body, would it be so very difficult to plead for love? Taehyung loved the twins, surely he would love this child as well. To plead with him so that this child be born into happiness and the love from both its parents?'

Telling himself that he must have faith that the love he had seen Taehyung give the twins would not be reserved for the twins alone, Jungkook walked towards the bathroom.

Ten minutes later Jungkook was still standing in the bathroom, his gaze fixed on the telltale line, had known, but nothing was the same as visible confirmation.

'Perhaps this baby, conceived against all the odds, meant to be—a gift to them both that they could share.'

Jungkook put his hand on the still flat belly and took a deep breath, he would have to tell Taehyung now, the sooner the better that against Taehyung's explicit wishes, Jungkook had conceived his child.

He thought of the contraceptive pills he had taken regularly, every evening, in obedience to Taehyung's conditions for their marriage.

His thoughts stopped when the sudden childish scream of anger he could hear from outside had Jungkook letting the test fall onto the marble surface of the handbasin.

He ran to the patio doors in the bedroom in automatic response.

Outside on the patio, Jungkook found the twins quarrelling over a toy, Haneul was attempting to drag it away from Haru, whilst the younger twin wailed in protest. 

Hoseok, alerted by the noise, wasn't far behind him and the two of them quickly defused the situation, just like how he found out the omega's situation.

Jungkook wasn't surprised that Hoseok had guessed, the homemade ginger biscuits that discreetly begun to appear with his morning cup of weak tea had already hinted to that shared his suspicion, stating matter-of-factly, "You will have your hands full if it is twins again that you are carrying."

Taehyung pushed back his chair, they had only arrived at the villa an hour ago, yet he was conscious of his urge to seek out his omega, with it an awareness that he was missing Jungkook's company and not just in bed.

Such feelings made him feel vulnerable, something that Taehyung instinctively resisted and resented, yet at the same time he was opening his office door and striding down the corridor in the direction of their bedroom.

I could not immediately overturn the conditioning of a lifetime of fearing emotional betrayal in the space of a few short weeks. 

Others close to him, like Hoseok and Jimin, might admire Jungkook and think the omega a good husband and mate but Taehyung told himself that he needed more proof that he could trust him, if he was able then there was much he could do to be with Jungkook and his sons.

Upon entering their shared room he noted Jungkook's open bag on the bed as he made his way to the bathroom, but it was only after he had showered and changed that he noticed the discarded white stick by the washbasin, it was a pregnancy test.

[ ] Not Pregnant

[ / ] Pregnant

After the issue with the boys, the first thing Jungkook saw when he went back into the bedroom was Taehyung's suit jacket on the bed, the omega's heart hammed too heavily and far too fast, with a mixture of guilt and fear. 

Jungkook walked towards the bathroom, coming to an abrupt halt when he saw Taehyung standing beside the basin, holding the plastic test kit.

The alpha had a blank look in his eyes, as though he couldn't quite believe what he was seeing, a look that was soon burned away by the anger the omega could see replacing it as his mate looked at him.

"You're pregnant."

It was an accusation, not a question and Jungkook's heart sank.

"Yes," Jungkook admitted truthfully, "I thought I might be but I wanted to be sure before I told you. I know what you said when we got married about me taking the pill because you didn't want another child, I took it on time-"

When Taehyung said nothing, simply continued to look at the omega, Jungkook was panicked into pleading emotionally, "Please don't look at me like that. You love the twins and this baby, your baby, deserves to be loved as well."

"My child? Since you have said that you were on the pill, it cannot possibly be my child, we both know that. Do you think me such a fool that I would let you pass off a brat conceived with one of the men who were enjoying your body before I found you? If so, you are the one who is a fool. But you are not a real fool, are you? You are a venal, lying, amoral and greedy man."

The words exploded into the room like randomly discharged machine gun fire, meant to destroy everything it hit.

Right now Jungkook might be too numb to feel anything, but the omega knew that he had been mortally wounded.

"You knew when you demanded that I marry you that you were carrying this child. I thought you've married me for the financial gain but I can see now that I didn't recognise the true depth of your greed and lack of morals," Taehyung accused Jungkook savagely.

Taehyung claimed that he was not a fool, but the opposite was true, he had allowed Jungkook to tempt him out of the security of the emotional mindset he had grown up with and to believe that maybe, just maybe, he had been wrong about him. 

But of course, he had not been. 

He deserved the punishment of what he was feeling now for dropping his guard, for deliberately ignoring all the safeguards he had put in place to protect himself. 

The bitter, angry thoughts raked Taehyung's pride with poison-dipped talons.

Jungkook couldn't bear any more.

"I married you for the sake of our sons," Jungkook told him fiercely, "And this child I am carrying now is yours. Yes, I took the pill but if you remember I wasn't well whilst we were travelling. I believe that is how I came to conceive, in some circumstances, a stomach upset and nausea can damage the pill's efficiency. we could ask for a doc-"

"A very convenient excuse," Taehyung sneered, "Do you expect me to believe it? You didn't marry me for the twins' sake, you married me for my money."

"That's not true," Jungkook denied, "When this baby is born I shall have its DNA tested-"

'How could he think so badly of him?'

Anger joined Jungkook's pain, Taehyung had called himself a fool, he was right.

Jungkook was the fool for loving him, for believing that Jungkook could reach out to him with that love.

"I know you," he repeated and hearing those words Jungkook felt his self-control break.

"No, you don't know me, Taehyung. All you know is your blind prejudice."

A few moments of silence stretched and then through sheer anger Jungkook continued to spill his bottled up feelings.

"Do you know what my worst sin has been? The thing I regret the most? It's loving you because in loving you, I become a fool for you. You've constantly accusing me of being some whore who came on to you. I was a seventeen-year-old virgin, a naïve and recklessly silly omega boy who, in the aftermath of losing my parents that I convinced myself that a man I saw across a crowded bar was my saviour, my hero, someone special who would lift me out of the misery, pain and loss and hold who will safeguard me in his arms. That was the true nature of my crime, idolising you and turning you into something you could never be, Taehyung," the omega paused to take another breath.

"And as for all those other men you like to accuse me of being with, they never existed, not a single one of them. Do you think I would be stupid enough to trust another man after the way you treated me? There was only one reason I asked you for marriage, I thought it would take you back off. But then, when I realised you genuinely wanted the twins, it was as I told you at the time, I grew up in that kind of family unit, and naturally, it was what I wanted for my sons. What you've just accused me of changes everything. I don't want you poisoning the boys' minds with your horrible mindset. I doubt even DNA evidence will convince you. Simply, it isn't what you want to believe. You want to believe the worst of me, perhaps you even need to believe it. In which case, I feel very sorry for you. My job as a father is to protect all my children."

This was so much worse than anything Jungkook had imagined might happen, he feared that Taehyung would be angry but it had never occurred to him that he'd refuse to accept the child he conceived was his.

Jungkook should hate him for that, he wished that he could.

Hatred would be cleansing and almost satisfying.

The omega plan to leave the country, but Jungkook wasn't going anywhere without the twins. They would miss Taehyung but he couldn't risk them thinking and feeling as he did and he couldn't let his bitterness infect them.

Jungkook turned to look through the still open patio doors, his vision blurred by the tears, "There's no point in us continuing this discussion since it's obvious that you prefer to think the worst of me. The twins are two very intelligent boys, they will quickly see that you do not accept this child, they might even mimic your behaviour and I will not allow that to happen."

Initially, he'd been determined to deny that there could be any truth in the omega's angry outburst but beneath the complex system his own hurt emotions had built up to protect him from the pain caused by his mother, tendrils of something 'other' had unfurled.

'When had this yearning to throw off the walls that confined him taken root? How could this part of him be willing to take Jungkook's side?'

Struggling against the opposing forces within himself, Taehyung fought desperately for a way forward, it stunned him into silence.

With no notice to wait for any response, Jungkook headed for the patio, eager to put as much distance between them as Jungkook could before his emotions overwhelmed, the tears burning the backs of the omega's eyes.

From the bedroom Taehyung watched his omega, his thoughts still at war with themselves. Jungkook had reached the top of the flight of stone steps that led down to the lower part of the garden.

Blinking fiercely to hold back Jungkook tears, he then stepped forward but somehow mistiming his step as the heel of his shoe caught on the edge, pitching his body forward.

Taehyung saw Jungkook stumble and then fall, tumbling down the steps, shock not registering as he raced after, taking two steps at a time to reach the omega's crumpled body that lay still at the bottom.

Jungkook was nearing unconsciousness, blood trickling from a cut at his temples and the omega's agonized two words were all Taehyung could hear as he kneeled over the limp body, blood dripping down below his thighs.

"M-my baby…"

~~~to be continued

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