CHAPTER 4

We didn't speak. Maybe Jungkook was disappointed enough with me that he'd cancel the engagement. But he wouldn't have put the ring on my finger if that were the case.

When we entered the dining room, my family and his family laughed together as they saw us.

Jungkook dropped his arm, and I quickly joined my mother and sisters, I had to change out of the dress I was wearing right now since this dress is not doing any good to my already destroyed reputation, my mom took me back to my room and showed me the dress that I had to wear for the engagement ceremony which is about to start in an hour, this dress is by Jungkook's personal designer,

Eunji gave me a look. I could tell that she had a biting comment on the tip of her tongue. I shook my head at her and she rolled her eyes. My mom left us alone until the engagement starts. Eunji finally looked me up and down, then marched towards me.

"Im telling you we can still run away, we both know that living with Dad or Jungkook is gonna be the same, you aren't expecting him to turn out like a good guy, are you?" she said biting her nails.

"Eunji, if we ran away then we have to take Lily and yeonjun with us too plus if I ran away it's possible that Jungkook and his dad might take overall, and then everyone here will be in danger" I sighed and looked at her

"don't tell me you still care for these monsters who don't even give a single fuck about us" she shouted, eyes almost blurred with tears

"We can't leave Mom alone with him, try to understand, "I said

"he won't let anything happen to Mom we all know that, plus Mom knows how to handle him, we don't need to worry about her and- she chuckled all of a sudden "Why are we even caring for her when all she did for us is dragging us in this hell hole..if she wanted she could have run away from her monster like husband just for the sake of her kids but what did she do huh?..she just ruined our life along with her's" I saw a tear slipping from her eyes, she quickly wiped it, and turned around to leave from my room.

I grabbed her hand

"Let's do this," I said

she turned around

"Do what?" she asked, even though I could see in her eyes that she already know what I meant

she looked me in my eyes for any signs of a lie 

"let's take Yeonjun and Lily with us too," I said and winked

another tear slipped from her eye and then she suddenly jumped and tackled me in a hug

a sob left her mouth

"thankyou thankyou thankyou so much Ru" she chanted

"Can we join too" We broke the hug and saw Lily and yeonjun standing at the door with their shiny eyes,

I gestured for them to come and join us

they sprinted toward us with a face that showed pain and only pain, I wish I could take away all their pain and give them the life that they deserve, and I will... I will provide them with every happiness in this world, I will show them how happiness feels like even though I myself have no idea what that thing is but I will.

That's when the door was slammed open

we turned towards it breaking the hug

Our father was standing there with a glass of wine in his hands and a big smile on his face

"Well well well..what are my daughters and son up to this time hmm",  he then scrutinized Yeonjun up and down "Definitely something not good," he sighed "Well my kids we don't want our guest to wait for too long, so better come downstairs in five minutes" 

---DOWNSTAIRS---

I am scared. I am nervous...

we had all just left my room when we saw Jungkook and his brother talking about something in the room next to mine. I wonder if he saw us...

"let's hear what they are talking about," said Eunji quietly, I nodded..we went closer to the door of the room but then I realized Yeonjun and Lily is still with us.

"ahh, you two... I have something a mission that you two have to do for me" Lisa's eyes sparked up after hearing this, and she nodded her head up and down too fast, meanwhile, Yeonjun was looking like he knows that I'm making a fool out of them, the boy is too smart according to his age, I gave him a little sheepish smile.

"Ok so you both have to stand downstairs on the stairs and wait for us to come down and-

Eunji pulled me hard toward her

"That's it, this is the mission now go" She started pushing them away from us

"This is the mission?, no I'm not doing i-

"No one asked Noona just come" Yeonjun dragged her away from us and gave  thumbs up in my direction, I chuckled at his  actions

"What's going on in there?" I said in a bare whisper, worried that they would overhear us.

she moved to the side, so I could peer through the peephole.

I squinted through the hole, which gave me a perfect view of the chairs crowded around the fireplace. Jungkook leaned against the marble ledge of the fireplace, legs casually crossed, a glass of Scotch in his hand. His brother Taehyung lounged in an armchair beside him, legs wide apart and that wolfish grin on his face. Felix and the second bodyguard Hyunjin sat in the other armchairs. Hyunjin looked to be the same age as Taehyung, so around eighteen. 

"It could have been worse," Taehyung said, grinning. He might not have looked quite as deadly as Jungkook, but something in his eyes told me he could only hide it better. "She could have been ugly. But, holy fuck, your little fiancée is a little vixen. That dress. That body. That hair and face." he whistled. It seemed as if he was provoking his younger brother on purpose.

"She's a child," Jungkook said dismissively. Anger rose in me, but I knew I should be glad that he didn't look at me like a man looked at a woman.

"She didn't look like a child to me," Taehyung said, then smirked a little. He nudged  Felix. "What do you say? Is Jungkook blind?"

Felix shrugged with a careful glance at Jungkook. "I didn't look at her closely."

"What about you, Hyunjin? You got functioning eyes in your head?"

Hyunjin looked up, then quickly looked back down to his drink.

Taehyung threw his head back and laughed. "Fuck, Jungkook, did you tell your men you'd cut their dicks off if they looked at your girl? You aren't even married to her."

"She's mine," Jungkook said quietly, sending a chill down my back with his voice, not to mention his eyes too. "For the next three years, you'll be in South Korea and she will be here. You can't always keep an eye on her, or do you intend to threaten every man in this country? You can't cut off all of their dicks. Maybe someone can keep watch over her."

"I'll do what I must," Jungkook said, swirling the drink in his glass. and then suddenly he looked up making me stumble back.

"shit he knew that we were here," said Eunji

I gulped hard..:

"god it's our house, not his let's go don't worry" She pulled my right hand to head back down

As we approached the steps 

 My left hand was grabbed by her hand. " since when did your hand get this b-

"Oh, that's Jungkook's hand

—hold on, those are JUNGKOOK'S HANDS, I turned my head in his direction in shock, trying to jerk my hand back, but his hold tightened on my hand,

"Act stupid in front of me again. and see what happens next" he glared at me

"Leave my hand right now" he scoffed and continued dragging me with him

as soon as we stepped into the hall, the room got silent,

"Look both of them are here too, Let's start the ceremony it's getting late anyways" I heard my father saying, Jungkook's dad nodded at us and smiled at me, I smiled back awkwardly

Jungkook directly took me to the stage at the end of the hall, he stepped on it easily, living me standing there dumbfounded with my long dress and heels,

he muttered something under his breath almost scoffing at the sight of me, rolling his eyes he took my hand, grabbed my waist by another, and pulled me up

asshole I muttered

What a bitch I heard him say, 

"ok kids let's not make everyone wait, why don't you both grab those rings and delight everyone with the beautiful view" his father laughed and signaled Jungkook to put a ring in my hand already, he nodded and took the ring out of that little box, Taehyung took the box from his hands, Jungkook looked at the ring again as if it was the most precious thing in the world for him, he clenched his jaw and then looked up directly in my eyes,  grabbed my hand and slipped the ring in my ring finger, and then my mother gave me the ring for Jungkook,

that's it, I can do it, I can hear my heart drumming in my ears, my mind shouting at me to not make any mistake, my hands shaking, I can feel Jungkook eyes on me, I heard someone coughing loudly...my dad it's him, I grabbed Jungkook hand by my shaking one and slipped the ring in his finger, and that's when I couldn't stop that single tear from leaving my eye, 

and just when a sob was going to leave my mouth he took my face in his big hands and pressed his lips on mine making me gasp in shock, my heart going wild and that's when he pulled me closer and placed his other hand on my waist,i felt him sucking on my bottom lip ,eye boring into mine and wiping that one single tear from his hand before anyone could see, my whole body already feeling week by the way he is holding me close, and that's when he retreated back from me making me catch as much breath as i can, i heard everyone cheering for us , my father congratulating his, my mother and his mother hugging each other making me roll my eyes again.

After the ceremony, I returned to my room, but couldn't fall asleep. Eventually, I put a bathrobe over my pajamas, slipped out of my room, and crept downstairs.

"What's the meaning of this?" I heard my Father saying

"I want to have a word with the men you chose to protect what's mine."

Eunji huffed beside me, but I pinched her. Nobody could know we were listening in on this conversation.

"They are good soldiers, both of them. Jackson is Ruhi's cousin, and Chan has worked for me for almost two decades."

"I'd like to decide for myself if I trust them," Jungkook said. I held my breath. That was as close to an insult as he could get without actually insulting my father openly. Father's lips thinned, and Taehyung flashed him a shark grin.

"Are you married?" Jungkook asked

he nodded.  "Ruhi must look awfully delicious in comparison to your wife,"Taehyung said  I stifled a gasp.

Chan's hand twitched, Father watched like a hawk but didn't interfere. he cleared his throat. "I've known Ruhi since her birth. She is a child."

"is she?," Jungkook said.

"She will always be a child in my eyes. And I'm faithful to my wife." 

Jungkook crossed his arms, then gave a nod. "I think you are a good choice, Chan." Chan stepped back but kept his gaze fixed on Taehyung who ignored him.

Jungkook's eyes settled on Jackson and he dropped whatever civility had cloaked the monster within until that point. He moved so close to Jackson that my cousin had to tilt his head back to return the stare. he tried to keep his expression arrogant and self-confident, but he looked like a  pup trying to impress a  tiger. Jungkook and he might as well have been two different species.

"He's family. Are you honestly going to accuse him of being interested in my daughter?"

"I saw how you looked at her" Jungkook said, never taking his eyes off of Jackson.

"Like a juicy mango that you wanted to suck," Taehyung threw in, enjoying this entirely too much.

Jackson's eyes darted toward my father, looking for help.

"Don't deny it. I know you want her" Jungkook growled. Jackson didn't deny it. "If I find out you are looking at her like that again. If I find out you are in a room alone with her. If I find out you touch as much as her hand, I will kill you."

Jackson smirked back. "You aren't a member of the Saltanat. Nobody would tell you anything I could break her in for you. what say " I gasped and just then my eyes met his.

Before I could even blink, Jungkook had thrown Jackson to the ground and dug a knee into his spine, and one of my cousin's arms twisted back. he struggled and cursed, but Jungkook held him fast. One of his hands gripped Jackson's wrist while he reached under his vest with the other, pulling out a knife.

My legs turned weak. 

 Father would surely stop Jungkook. But Father's expression was disgusted as he stared down at Jackson. Jungkook's eyes met Father's gaze – Jackson wasn't his soldier. This wasn't even his territory and when my father gave a nod, he brought the knife down and cut Jackson's pinky off. The screams rang in my ears when my vision turned black. I  let out a screech that could have woken the dead. 

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"I think I won't mind it if he becomes my brother in law" I heard Eunji saying

GREAT I muttered