Jungkook's POV

Jazz played on the radio while my car zoomed through the middle of the deepening forest. The road ahead was empty and dark with just the headlight of my car dominating the surroundings while on both sides it was the row of huge trees. My one hand rested on the side of the closed window as I let my head lean on my fist . I was mostly concentrating on the road while occasionally glancing at the motionless rested figure beside me .

Presently I found my gaze lingering a little longer than other times. There was a melancholy in the air along with the certain rage I had felt previously. I shouldn't be guilty of what I was doing. A voice in my head echoed that she deserved it . But then… I looked ahead again, my eyes fixated on the grey road while my mind surfed back to where it all began.

Flashback .

23rd January 2024

My phone buzzed in my pocket and was ignored for the thirteenth time . It was irritating but not more than the douche I was assigned to take care of . I fixed my rifle with a silencer at its mouth and a steadied grip on my hand .

To eliminate assholes like this one , I needed some peace , some calming music and perfect timing. Seemingly , my boss wasn't prepared to let me have any of it . With a charging annoyance and anger I changed my aim from the head to the heart. Shooting his head would give him an easy and instant death. Now that I was angered, I wanted to watch him suffer and die. Before pulling the trigger, I brought my phone out , an incoming call still showing.

I grimaced at the sight of my boss’s name along with a bundle of black furred spawn of a devil which he had sneakily set as the picture in my phone . I'll take care of this stupid excuse of a boss later . I dropped my phone far away from where my posture laid . I was on my stomach with half of my body surged up with the deathly object in my hand . “ He doesn't get it that the world is not revolving around him." I spoke with no one in particular before resting my aim back on the target .

It took me seconds afterwards to complete my task , making sure to watch my subject lose his blood and breath all at once and then give in to death. A surge of satisfaction sent a tranquillity down to all of my agitation as I took in the distant echo of chaos erupting at the scene while I gathered my equipment.

It took me somewhere around six minutes and forty eight seconds to leave the place and once I was surrounded by my usual route to home, taken over by trees rather than buildings and leaving me in a fragment of Seoul where the urbanisation decreased to zero , I finally called back my boss . Something which I regretted just some moments later .

" you threaten her , take her to Jeju , kill her and frame it as suicide. It's that simple." The voice from the other side of the phone chartered loudly , one because he was overly excited and second he was frustrated with my denial.

" Exactly! It's that simple and I don't do simple shits. " I stated for the umpteenth time.

" Come on jk . Just for this once . You were personally chosen by the client. "

" Who is this mother fucker by the way ? " I didn't care if I ended up snapping at my boss. This whole situation was going out of my hands and I didn't like it one bit .

" Needs to be kept confidential. " Boss replied shortly

" Are you fucking with me right now ? I am the one to perform the task . I deserve to know . " Life was kidding me at this rate . My tongue poked the side of my inner cheek feeling the anger underneath my skin .

" You deserve to be paid well and you already are . Shut the fuck up and get to work already. The ball is tomorrow ."

" I'd rather kick your balls bro . " I stepped on the accelerator, increasing the already swift pace of the car .

" Jk , mind you, who's the boss here ? " Hearing him I let out a sarcastic laugh which didn't reach my eyes .

" Whatever ." If he was in front of me , He could have seen me deadpan. But the other guy stood unphased and stuck to his own grounds still trying to convince me .

" Right now you gotta show up and we need a proper plan along with a dress up sketch. You need to stand out and catch her eyes . Lure her and then prey on her . " He went on with his own disillusionment of the fact that I would actually be doing that . No way I was going to get tangled in such stuff where I would have to initiate with my subject. Over that , kidnapping and killing used to be stuff on my rookie days.

" You think I'm going to do this ? "

" I'm sure about it. "

" Wake up their boss ! "

" I have already received the payment. "

" Give it back " I almost threw my phone away but controlled somehow.

" We don't have a refund policy. "

A stretch of silence took over as I processed the most shitty reason that bastard could have given me . Then I exploded.

" Fuck you . "

" I'm straight from the bottom of my heart . " I could imagine my boss saying this with his thin lipped smile , hand on chest and eyes closed to show the sincerity and truthfulness of his words.

After some more bantering I decided I would try to consider the job just for the sake of getting rid of Yoongi , that damn boss , from behind my back .

" Who do I have to woo and then kill ? " I questioned tiredly as my car took a turn to face another stretched highway ahead .

" Kim Y/n . " For a moment my breathing stilled and my eyes went out of focus from the road and a whirlpool of memories rushed in my brain.

" Wait , who ? " It might have been a mistake because there was no way that anyone would want her dead .

" The multi-billionaire , rising CEO , first woman to be this successful…… " Yoongi went on with the description but I wasn't listening to what he was saying anymore. I just knew that I wouldn't be doing it anymore.

" Yoons , I'm not doing this. " I interrupted his words with my direct answer.

" Wait... Are you kidding me ? We r not having the conversation again -"

" I really am not doing it . " I interrupted him again.

" JEON JUNGKOOK DON'T YOU DARE STEP AWAY! " He yelled

" I'M OUT OF THIS ! " I yelled back louder. I wasn't fucking going to kill her .

" Why ? Are you scared and backing off because she's a big personality? "

" I'm backing off cause we have a policy to kill bad people . Not the good ones ? "

" How can you be so sure that she's a good one ?"

" I... " My words were at a loss . What could she have done in the span of ten years ?

" Jungkook. People might show off as a goody two shoes in front of the world . Behind the door , you never know who they are or what they are ? " I didn't question but Yoongi seemed to have understood my dismay and confusion. So he explained , his words being too realistic of my liking.

" That's not it ! " It was a lie to myself but somehow my heart didn't wish to accept the reality.

" THEN WHAT IS IT ? " This time Yoongi yelled.

" You fucking don't have to know . I'm not willing to do this so I won't. You can do whatever the hell you want. " As a kid would, I was backing away as well with the worst reasoning.

Yoongi laughed a sarcastic laugh and then questioned , "Kook, are you backing off because of your childhood puppy love ? "

" No ." My jaw tightened with anger and yet again I uttered a lie in the usher of a ‘no’ . I didn't wonder about how Yoongi was aware of it. That man was too observant to not be .

" Then tell me what it is ? If it is a good reason then I'll let you go . " Yoongi sounded like he was totally done with me.

I thought for a while . Remorsefully found nothing and in the end chose to be rational.

" You tell me . What did she do that a person wants her to get killed ? " It was finally a pondering question rather than something which could be of me in my denial. The reality was slowly settling down within me and no matter how bitter it tasted , I would have to go for it.

" She killed someone. "

" Who ? " Now I wanted the talk to be straight to the point and nothing else .

" She killed Jeon Junghoon . Does the name ring a bell ? " My eyes widened, hands around the steering wheel loosened as I pressed the brake out of the blue, causing myself to jolt forward at the force . But the shock came harsher than this .

" You are lying. " My voice shook with a certain anomalous stench to it .

" I wish I didn't have a reason to bring your past back but , your brother didn't kill himself. "

" He was pushed down by Kim Y/n . " Yoongi's voice sounded lower and warmer but the information was something so cold and bitter, something which pricked my chest painfully and gave birth to anger .

" Who is the one asking for her to be dead now? " I still felt an urgency to interrogate because even in the midst of my anger , the words were too rigid to dissolve within me.

" They didn't tell me honestly... Before you start again , they provided evidence. " Yoongi knew me too well . My phone buzzed with notifications within a minute and then Yoongi asked me to check what he had sent.

My brother's death was a sensitive topic, a turning point of my life . As I brought the phone under my eyesight, I also noticed how my hand trembled with the anxiety this situation was giving me . I opened our chats and saw it .

Video and photographs.

It took me some moments to process them . One by one . I viewed them all and could feel how my heart was slowly falling under a grasp of dark shackles , restricting itself from feeling anything towards the woman for whom it had felt so much in secret for ten years .

" So. Still don't want to do this ? “ Yoongi questioned after almost half an hour had passed . I didn't realise he was still on call before . But now as he had snapped me out of my processing stage , my eyes were back to being the cold numb evils they were . “ I'll be there at the ball tomorrow." It was a short statement from my side before I ended the call.

Maybe this mission would have to be for my own self as well because I was dying for revenge.

End of Flashback

Present time

8:45 pm -

There was a shuffle beside me , bringing my conscience back to the present. As I looked to my left , I found Y/n’s struggling figure, trying to free her hands . I couldn't help but smirk at the blunt move . “ You won't be able to break through that until I uncuff you ." I deadpanned at how she violently tried to pull her hand while they were cuffed to the door handle of my car . It only caused a patch of hue on her wrist .

Something stirred inside me , watching her pointless struggle and caused my left hand to reach and press onto her hands a little harsher, causing her to silently yelp at the force. When she ceased her actions, I let go of her while my attention laid on the road ahead.

“ Where are we going?" Her words had no match with the way she was acting some moments ago . I had expected to hear fear in her voice but rather it was something blatant and emotionless. I assumed that it would be because she had accepted the fact that there was no way out .

“ Somewhere calmer where I can unalive you in peace ." I had no intention of lying or cheering her up . It was good if she had accepted her fate. “ Oh. " I furrowed my brows hearing her answer accompanied with a muffled chuckle. When I turned to face her , her eyes laid ahead on the road as well but what was unusual was the way she had a mischievous smile on . Has she lost it ?

I shook my head, almost feeling sympathetic to her state . Or maybe she was always this crazy, just kept up with the act of innocence in front of people. We never know what's happening behind the closed door. Yoongi was right afterall. The long stretched forest seemingly was coming to an end as my view laid on an approaching shop .

“Oh finally!" An excited exclamation came from beside me. " Stop the car ." I almost let out a laugh at the casualness in her voice. Now was she ordering around her abductor ? “ Yeah and let you take a run back home ?" A sarcastic remark didn't tone down her anticipating eyes but rather added a scowl to them. " Do I seem like a fool ? Why would I tire myself out by trying to run away from you ? You'd chase me down anyway right now . “ Not going to lie , I was a bit taken aback.

Wasn't she the same person who looked so miserable in front of me some hours ago? Her vulnerability at the ball was evident and this sarcasm was nowhere to be seen around those gawking guys. I had to believe that it was the chloroform which loosened her screws. “It was a nice try to convince me but-" “ Oh come on ! I need to pee . Does it make sense now ? I can very well drain your car seat but that wouldn't make me comfortable for the fact that I think my period has started. Gosh girls and their wrong timings to bleed. Understand a bit at least? “

I had no words for the fact and somehow her arrogance was pissing me off . What happened to her calm overall demeanour ? I hit the brake, already frustrated with the talk. "Think you're smart, huh? I'm giving you a chance, but make one wrong move, and you'll find a blade at your throat faster than you can blink. Play nice, be a good girl, or prepare for a world of pain , your call.” My words were stern with a hint of cockiness but nothing seemed like it could phase her . She nodded her head yet there wasn't any compliance to it .

I unbuckled my seat belt and turned to my right to open the door of the car . Once I stepped outside, I made sure to put on a mask and cap and pulled my shirt’s sleeves down which were previously folded up . Then I walked to the left side of the car , opened the car door and unlocked the cuff which was locked with the handle . “ Won't the shopkeeper get sketchy if he sees me in a handcuff ? " I laughed at the remark, failing to not retort back. " He'll think we are into BDSM ."

I wasn't a fool to let her go with a free hand. Her reality prove a lot of things out of which one thing stood clear . She did have an intention to make a run and I was ready to chase down my prey .

Inside the store , as expected it had no sign of customers other than us . Upon approaching the site it turned out that there was a gas station as well behind the small store packed with basic necessities. I parked my car at the back side, deciding to get some fuel on my way.

“ You better behave." I had warned Y/n with my gun edging behind her waist as she entered the restroom. Her response was an eye roll .

I stood by the door waiting for her in the midst of the silence in the shop and the shopkeeper drooling all over the table while he snored the night away. Pathetic. The sound of water ceased and my senses heightened when she didn't step out immediately. “ What's taking you so long ? “ I knocked on the door after questioning. The answer came shortly after but with a lace of struggling breath. “ It's not easy to pee with a gown on ." I sighed , closing my eyes for a moment to control my anger.

“ Just get it done quickly, if you don't want me to break in and drag you out. "

" It seems you are too desperate to have me back to yourself. “ I couldn't comprehend whether there was a mock in her words or not but either way I didn't like it at all . The liking I had held towards her had vanished the moment I got to know her real side . A murderer without guilt .

I shook my thoughts off as soon as they intervened . Right at the moment I required a silence in my mind and had to focus on the present situation. I fisted my hand and knocked violently on the door this time . It was loud enough to jerk up the sleeping man on the other side with an alarmed yelp . Our eyes met and he seemed to have calmed down. “ Can I help you get anything?" He looked as if his mind was still processing.

“ I've already got it. " I answered shortly, turned around and banged on the door again. The wood wasn't strong enough, already rattling under the continuous abuse until it finally opened , causing a creaking noise and presenting me the view ahead. Empty as wind gushed in through the window above the toilet seat which was left ajar . “ I knew it . “ There was a warning smile which crawled up on my face . It could be seen by none because of the black material which hid most of my face but I could feel the adrenaline pumping through my veins .

I dashed out of the store followed by a feared call from behind from the shopkeeper. I would get back to pay but not before getting a hand on Y/n. But my furious steps paced down when I saw her nonchalantly taking a stroll near my car . Was she kidding with me ? I took further steps to approach her but stood at a distance when I finally noticed it.

The bottom of her dress had darkened with the caught up dust from around, hairs messily tied with a band which she must have gotten from the store . Her well done make-up was a mess as well but yet she managed to stand out. Her beauty was appealing as always but there was a madness which struck her features presently. Her eyes shone so enticingly with the hidden haunt in them . The Kim Y/n I had kept a watch on , the one who had occupied a part of my mind for ten long years stood unfamiliar.

I had known her as a generous personality, someone timid , understanding, thoughtful and with perfect morals . On the television screens and phone screen, she seemed elegant but the hint of madness with which she stood in front of me and the smile on her lips which seemed to have taken a permanent place there since she woke up , trampled on everything I had known about her. She was an unfamiliar woman , someone unknown and someone who seemed like could cause a storm .

And she did as the mental object in her hand clanged as she lightened the lighter . There was a stench of petrol around. I had noticed it the moment my steps took me closer to her and hence I stood rooted to the ground, waiting for her action like a hunter would before he hunted his prey . And she moved , her next move foreseeable as she dropped the fire lit lighter and it was such a view to watch the fire take over .

One spark could indeed cause destruction. “You asked me to try harder. Does this excite you ? " Her question brought me a crooked smile filled with venom . I watched the raging fire devour my black car completely, with my fingers abusing the skin of my palm . The actions were something which caused an insanity to grow within me . My anger was it and soon it blinded me . One moment I was standing too still and the next moment I was charging towards Y/n who stood dangerously close to the fire. So close that it could take her life away within a snap of a finger . But I wouldn't allow that.

My mission was to drown her , to push her off the edge of the cliff as she did to my brother. I wanted her to burn but not like this with the fire destroying her. I wanted to destroy Y/n , wanted to snatch that daunting curve of her lips . I wanted to watch her burn inside the water while she struggled to breath . With that intention I approached her with a tremendous speed until my hands wrapped around her frame and pulled her closer to myself.

Our bodies turned , with me facing the excess temperature this time which grew until it exploded, the heat and the power sending our bodies off to land on the ground with a huge thud at a distance.

As pain and burn shooted through my back I first turned around to watch the form of my car s

lowly disappear into the fire and then I turned back to face the body pressed underneath me looking so fragile and safe with her consciousness lost. Kim Y/n was a mystery to solve.