CHAPTER FOURTEEN
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Dad?
Seokjin snapped his head towards the wolf upon hearing the young teenager's words as his eyebrows furrowed.
No, it can't be. My father is a human. Jungkook mentally thought—not knowing the Duke can clearly hear him.
He remembered his mother showing him the picture of his human father, and knowing that, the Duke looked exactly like him but much younger and is a vampire. His mother said that his father is already dead considering he's a human, and it happened thousand years ago.
And yes, he knows about himself being suppressed in his mother for hundred years.
Seokjin, on the other hand, chuckled at how the teenager wolf just called him father when he doesn't even have a child.
"I'm your father, now?" Seokjin teased even with his weak state.
Jungkook furrowed and growled at him making Seokjin huffed. "I'm just kidding! No need to dominate me with your Alpha tone."
The Alpha hissed, glaring at the Duke making the vampire scorned. "I'm a Vampire Duke, need I remind you."
Jungkook really wanted to attack the Duke but because of the bars separating them, he couldn't.
"Sorry about that, Duke Kim Seokjin." The pale man stood behind him, and took a step forward as he introduced himself. "I am Min Yoongi, the beta of the pack and he's Jeon Jungkook, the Alpha of the pack."
"I know someone whose last name was Jeon before," Seokjin huffed, remembering his arch enemy back when they were in college. The man tried to hit on with his wife.
"Don't help him out!" Jungkook scowled, turning around leaving Yoongi and Seokjin.
Yoongi retorted, eventually helping Seokjin out with the key that his fellow wolf gave him when he killed the guard with the key.
"He's really mad eh?" Seokjin chuckled but hissed when he stood up with Yoongi's help as they got out of the cell.
"There's no time to talk now," Yoongi said, supporting the weak Duke. "I want you to help us overthrow Namjoon."
"Overthrow Namjoon?" Seokjin's eyes widened, his forehead wrinkled. "What do you mean?"
"If you're thinking about Jungkook being the King of all Races after killing Namjoon, he won't be. I don't know who will rule the kingdom, but I'm sure Jungkook has a plan."
"We're going now!" Jungkook snarled, interrupting the conversation of the two as he watched them.
The Alpha wanted to despise the Duke—he hated vampires, yet doesn't have a choice but to help them. Somehow...there’s something tingling inside him that he can't hate the Duke in a way he doesn't have any idea why.
Jungkook stomped towards them, and giving a death glare towards the Duke. "Do you want to help us or not?!"
The Duke scoffed. "Of course! I may be weak but I still have strength and abilities."
Jungkook rolled his eyes, transforming back to his beautiful furred wolf making Seokjin's eyes widened making him think. A black werewolf?
Seokjin’s heart accelerated at the thought of seeing another rare black werewolf—especially with a one of a kind glossy fur. The last person he'd known that has a black fur was his wife and the King of werewolves.
Impossible.
Seokjin decided to not mind, shaking his wolf. It can't be—he didn't believe anything what he was assuming. He's been trying to find his wife for a thousand years yet there wasn't a single trace. He took a deep breath, speeding—following the black werewolf and brown one as his eyes never left Jungkook.
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"Kim Namjoon," Seokjin hissed, gripping his bleeding arms and his feet digging deeper on the soil from the force Namjoon used just by hitting him.
He was facing the current King, without no one around in the garden. Not even a single guard as all the guards are fighting the werewolves outside the palace.
Gladly, when they entered the palace, no one was around except Namjoon who was at the court room, and immediately lead him to the indoor garden.
Namjoon growled at him, speeding forward as he lounge another hit at the Duke on the stomach making Seokjin winced and landed on the ground.
"Dad!" Jungkook blurted out, making the two looked at him in shock.
Namjoon was confused as to why he didn't notice the smell of the wolf around while Seokjin looked at him, confused at who he was calling 'Dad'.
Even Jungkook doesn't have any idea at all. The sudden outburst startled him as well, and he mentally cursed while Seokjin became flustered at his presence. This wasn't what they planned.
The Alpha should enter when he already diverted Namjoon's attention, and gesture him to attack. Seokjin and Jungkook both planned that the Duke should keep Namjoon busy while Jungkook will hide behind a bush and attack him. He decided to be the one who will hide in the garden before Seokjin will lead Namjoon there, as no one could smell him because of the bracelet that Ha Na gave him.
"Shit." Seokjin muttered under his breath, panicking and speeding towards the wolf to save him from Namjoon's attack. "You—"
However, Namjoon was already facing Alpha, and Jungkook has his breath hitched and tingling sensation of fear running down his spine. Shivers and chills sent in his entire body as the current King got near him. A lump forming on his throat.
Seokjin watched as the two face to face, and halted from his step. He was too late. But what made it f****d up was that Jungkook wasn't in his wolf form anymore.
When did he get the time to dressed?!
"It's you..." Namjoon smirked, analysing the familiar features of the wolf in his human form. "Aren't you that kid?"
Jungkook looked at him, goosebumps rising on his skin as Namjoon stepped forward. "How are you still alive?"
The Alpha furrowed his eyebrows, eyes staring at Namjoon's red eyes. He was confused as to what the King was trying to say.
"You changed a lot as a kid." Namjoon eyed the Alpha. He knew the Alpha's face even though he only met him when he was young. "You must be connected to a witch knowing how you became so old in just a span of four months."
"What are you talking about?" Jungkook's throat has gone dry as he took a step back.
Namjoon snorted. "I clearly killed you back in the forest."
Jungkook's eyes widened and lips became pale while Seokjin's watched the King and the Alpha—bewildered.
What is Namjoon talking about? Seokjin mentally asked.
"You killed me." Jungkook whimpered, taking another step back, feeling his knees feeble. His wolf growled in disapproval of the human showing weakness in front of someone. "W-Why?"
"I knew you were going to be in Ha Na's destiny. That's why I killed you." Namjoon scoffed in disbelief, still amazed by the presence of the young wolf he killed in the forest. "How come I didn't predict this again?"
This is the second time his prediction failed. One was with Taehyung, and now with the Alpha being alive.
Seokjin blinked twice, recalling his memories four months ago when he saw a pup lifeless in the forest. "It was him?"
Seokjin snapped his head towards the Alpha. "He was that child?"
How did the child grew so fast? Is he connected to her? And it hit Seokjin, he remembered smelling another scent aside from Jimin's that night.
The scent belonged Namjoon?
Seokjin's eyes suddenly flickered towards Jungkook's gaze who was conveying him something through his eyes. He mentally rolled his eyes knowing he can even hear Jungkook.
Yah! You should attack him already!
The Duke nodded, immediately grabbing his knife that contains no silver, and without any hesitation, he stabbed Namjoon from behind.
Without knowing, a tear rolled off the Duke's eyes before his knees goes lacking in strength as he watched the Duke fall to the ground. His heart unknowingly clenched, even knowing that a vampire won't even die from a regular knife.
In a speed of light, Jungkook was quick to grab Namjoon by his neck—preparing to snap it but Seokjin screamed.
"Don't!" He squeaked, raising his hand to stop Jungkook. "Don't kill him."
"Why wouldn't I?!" Jungkook hissed, hands wrapped around the King.
"J-Just don't!" Seokjin shuddered, watching as Namjoon didn't even try to get out of the Alpha's clasp.
Namjoon looked at Seokjin—asking for him, and that was when the Duke's heart softened. The current King has been his best friend for a thousand years, and with one mistake—should he even hate him?
Seokjin knew him—Namjoon regretted everything. If not, why didn't he attack Jungkook, and just let himself be struggled underneath him despite being the second strongest in history?
"The plan was to kill Namjoon!" Jungkook growled, giving a deathly glare towards Seokjin.
"He's my brother—our brother."
The brother who stayed by our side from the very start.
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"I can't believe that Namjoon preserved Taehyung's body." The witched scoffed in disbelief as she eyed the corpse inside an ice coffin with the smoke coming out of it.
"Why would he even preserve his body?" She rolled her eyes before lifting her hands up, controlling the cover to open by itself.
As the cover was raised, she threw it across the room, and approached Taehyung who was lying there—lifeless. But everything will be changed now that she will do everything in her powers to make the man alive.
"In three days, you will be awake, my love." The witched whispered, bending down a little bit as her hands reached out for him. She suddenly stopped, eyes widened in amazement, and jaw dropped as her eyes flickered to Taehyung's chest.
"He's still alive?"
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