@lockedkv: hope that he is okay-”“He wi...

hope that he is okay-”

“He will not be here tomorrow so he cannot meet you but I will tell him you wished him well”, Jin nods.

Jungkook frowns, “why? Its mid semester, he can't just miss classes.”

“He has to go meet his mate”, the sting in Jungkook's chest grows deeper, bigger

then it was before, “his mate?” he echoes.

“His mate”, Jin says firmly, “so he will see you on the day after.

Jungkook nods, against his inhibitions before he breaths out and takes to leave, turning without saying anything else.

He leaves quietly, not even stopping to glare

at the only other alpha there.

As soon as he is well away from the place, he is calling up Yoongi and placing the phone on his ear, “hyung, I think I found a Jin hyung to look into.”

Yoongi frowns on the other end, “where?”

“That is something we have to find out”, Jungkook

whisper, “we need to get all the information and everything we find available about him and about”, he pauses, “Park Taehyung.”

“Taehyung?” Yoongi echoes.

“Yes,” Jungkook says, “we need to do our research on him and his Jin hyung first before anything else.”

—

“So I couldn't find any Park Taehyung with his face”, Yoongi confirms as they sit together, faces almost attached to their laptops as they try yo fiddle with softwares. Jungkook is clicking away, “none of them matches his face. There are so many omegas with the name Taehyung.

Especially ones born after Omega Kim Taehyung was”, he shakes his head, sighing.

“This Jin hyung might have been easier to find if we knew his last name. At this point he can be anyone. You can't possibly look at thousands of Jins to find him as well.”

Jungkook presses his lips

together in a thin line, “maybe we can trace them through Kim Namjoon then.”

“We already searched but nothing-”, Yoongi nods, “not like that”, Jungkook says pausing to match Yoongi's eyes. Yoongi's eyes furrow, “he is not going to tell us anything. You know he has a stick up his

ass and he hates the likes of us, especially you.”

Jungkook rolls his eyes, “he needs to move the fuck on and I hardly did something to him-”

“You slept with his brother. His naive, virgin brother,” Yoongi deadpans.

Jungkook grimaces, “you make it sound like I gr*omed him or

something. He is literally the same age as me and it was just s*x, wolves are allowed to have s*x in colleges.”

“You broke his heart”, Yoongi says.

“Hyung. I am mated now please don't bring up my past escapades-”, Yoongi snorts, laughing as Jungkook nods, “we need to pressure

him. You need to pressure him.”

Yoongi's eyes widen slightly, “you want me to clean up after your dirty work?”

“Hyung please. Its my mate-”

“But what if Park Taehyung isn't your mate? What if he actually had a mate he is meeting today?”

Jungkook doesn't know. He doesn't know,

if Taehyung really is or if he is reaching or anything or, “it could be any other omega that is right but at this point, he is the only omega who came into this school just after I got mated to someone I don't remember and also knows a Jin hyung that my mate knows plus you also

felt something different about him-”

“Yes but it wasn't because I felt your bond or something”, Yoongi says carefully, “is it”, he pauses, “Jungkook, why is it that you want Taehyung to be your mate?”

“I don't want him to by my mate”, Jungkook says, quickly, too quickly.

Yoongi huffs, “what is it? Is it because he is so exceptionally handsome, is it because he is so caring towards you? What is it?”

Jungkook shakes his head, “its none of that hyung. I am running purely based on guesses. Because of the reasons I told you, I-”

Yoongi purses his

his lips, “Jungkook, do not lead yourself up to a heartbreak when you have been keeping it safe for so long for your fated mate.”

Jungkook stills.

He falters.

Fated mate. A concept so impossible yet-

“I know it is the only thing you believe in. Even if you don't believe in

most of things given by the moon, fated mates is something you believe in since your grandmother told you those stories. It is why you have never courted an omega, never did anything serious because you believed in meeting your fated mate.”

Jungkook gulps.

Its not something

he discusses quite so often. Not when he got laughed at so many times when he was a mere pup babbling about having a fated mate after he heard the story.

“Hyung, there is a very solid reason why I got laughed at whenever I bought up fated mates”, Jungkook says slowly, “maybe I

believed it for the longest time. Alphas, non pureblood ones do not have fated mates”, Jungkook feels his chest tighten, “it is impossible for alphas like me to have fated mates. We are just there”, he shakes his head, “I just-I can't-”

Yoongi's eyes turn sad, “Jungkook, you

held this belief for so long, you can't just-”

“I am already mated, hyung”, the alpha says, “why would I hold onto that stupid belief anymore? I have a mate to think about, to look for-”

“And you want it to be Park Taehyung?” Yoongi asks.

Jungkook glares at him, “I don't

/want/ it to be him. Everything just leads to him. There is no other reason.”

“Jungkook, not a lot of things are leading to him. They are not leading to anyone. I just don't want your heart to get broken when you give it to him and he ends up actually having a mate. He is

becoming someone you are letting your beliefs go for-”

Jungkook curses, “he is not hyung, I told you its not about him, I an literally mated. By the looks of it, I can't break it because there is so much more going on, what else do you want me to do?”

Yoongi remains silent.

He sighs, “fine then.”

Jungkook shakes his head, before he is pulling up his phone and looking at the unread messages he sent Taehyung.

Was the omega still unconscious?

He sighs

The thought gnaws at his chest as he looks at his laptop again.

—

Taehyung coughs violently as soon as he feels his senses come back to him. There are voices around him instantly, calling out for him as he flutters his eyelashes open, “Jungkook”, he whispers, knowing that it is only the alpha who is supposed to be here.

“Jungkook isn't here”, A voice says firmly, “and we are already at the temple.”

Taehyung frowns as he completely opens his eyes and registers Jimin and Jin's face. The minute he does, his scent soars as it turns rotten, “what do you mean he isn't here? I wanted one night with

him, why-"

“You fainted”, Jin says gently, rubbing his shoulders to sooth him down, “I came as soon as I heard. We had to get you to the healer to check if it was any side affects for being so close to your mate-”

Taehyung's heart takes up beat all of a sudden. Jin is speaking

still but he hears none of it. The panic he felt last night returning as he remembers why he fainted in the first place.

He feels nauseous, he feels like fainting again as he whispers, “appa knows.”

Jin pauses, not hearing what he said, “what?”

“Hyung”, Taehyung's eyes turn

blue, startling blue, “appa knows”, he whispers.

Jin stills. Jimin's eyes widen. Fear instantly grips them.

“What...what do you mean he knows?” Jin asks, “what does he know-”

Taehyung feels like screaming, but his voice remains weak, a mere whisper, “that I am mated to Jeon

Jungkook. And I- I think he is the one who separated us.”

Jin's scent immediately turns rotten, like de*th in fear as he stares at Taehyung. Jimin's the same.

“No”, Jin whispers, “no, he couldn't”, he looks away from Taehyung, looks at nothing.

Painful silence befalls them.

“This changes a lot of things”, Jin whispers, his scent turning more rotten, “I can't-” his hands are on his mouth.

But before any of them could say something, a knock echoes around the room, “sire”, a priest calls out, “Alpha heir is here to meet the Sacred omega.”

Taehyung's

eyes turns horrified now, "hyung, I can't", he says immediately as soon as the priest leaves, "hyung please don't make me. I have a mate, please-”

Jin looks at him with such sad eyes that it shakes something in Taehyung

“Taehyung listen to me”, he holds both of his arms tightly

as the omega shakes his head vehemently, “your appa knows. Since he knows, you have to listen to everything he says. You have to listen to him and go meet your betrothed. Because if you don't, then your appa will start to dig, he will find out that we were not at the temple, that

we found the mate he separated from you- if he already doesn't know”, Jin gulps, “but if we defy him, what if he comes after the said mate? What if he does something more?” Jin asks.

Dread binds his chest into a tight grip.

- I am sorry for leaving all so suddenly but I am moving and its just hectic on this side😭😭😭 but I will be back with full updates tomorrow!!

“There is just so many factors unknown here”, Jin says, “so many risks involved. One wrong step and its going to cost heavier than yours and his missing memories. We need to play by your appa's rules, just for now.”

Taehyung gulps back a huge weight, his being shivering.

Jin

pats his shoulders before he is taking a step away from him. Jimin stares at him, scared, “Taehyung, we have to let Jungkook know”, he whispers, “the risks are too much, he needs to know as well.”

Taehyung feels like crying, “what if he breaks it off in one go?”

Jimin stares

at him, “Taehyung do you want him to keep it? We were going to break it off to-”

“Sacred omega?” one of the priest calls and Jimin immediately shuts off.

Taehyung says yes softly.

“Your alpha is waiting for you in the designated space. Please do not keep him waiting”, Taehyung

has to get up them, his face withering when he sees he has already been changed to a flowing, heavily embroidered hanbok to meet the alpha.

Unwillingly, Jungkook's words echo in his mind as he walks towards the room the alpha is waiting for him for.

There are priests following

behind him. His anklet sound is the only thing that echoes around.

The door opens before him and his mind registers the way his heart withers when he sees the alpha and not the one his omega wanted to see.

The pureblood alpha turns, his scent strong, complimenting his like it