Revenge: Love Me Enough (TaeKook)
Chapter 1
This is for the ones who lost their voice. This is for the ones who wish they could take it back. This is for the ones people still whisper about. This is for the ones who fight every single day to forget.
This book contains sensitive, graphic, and mature themes. It is not suitable for kids or the faint-hearted.
But if you’re a fan of revenge served cold—without leaving a single crumb—this is your book.
Tim Hoover ❌
Chuck Cosby ❌
Nathan Malone ❌
Jeremy Hoyt❌
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So many names left to go...
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Einstein said, “The weak revenge. The strong forgive. The intelligent ignore.”
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Fùck that. Einstein wasn’t always right.
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Revenge is a dish best served cold... Now that I agree with.
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It means they forget you’re coming for them, and their screams sound so much prettier when the time finally comes.
I love humanity but I hate humans.
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You look like you’ve been stood up
I hear a guy say as I peer up from my phone, discreetly clicking the lock screen into place so he can’t see what I’m watching.
Good looking, mid-twenties, arrogant smile, dominant posture... He’s definitely barking up the wrong tree though.
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Actually, I enjoy eating alone
I Reply with a fuck-off, sweet smile.
He doesn’t take the hint, because his eyes narrow with determination.
Alphas prefer a challenge.
I should have known better.
Jackson Wang (DA)
I’m Jackson. You’re...
He lets his words trail off as he rakes his eyes over me, but I say nothing.
Jackson Wang (DA)
If you don’t give me your name, I’ll just call you Beauty.
His attempt at flattery is overtly untrained and certainly underdeveloped.
He’s obviously used to getting his way without much of a fuss, which means he never puts forth any effort after catching his prize either.
Considering his expensive suit and visible appeal, I’m not surprised.
Plenty of omegas and women will overlook his arrogance, confusing it for cockiness, possibly even find it charming.
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How about calling me Not Interested? Because that’s the most apt depiction of me at the moment.
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*leaning back in the chair, relaxed and fully in control*
Jackson Wang (DA)
Apparently you haven’t gotten a good look,, *leaning back more like posing*
His stance gives me nothing more to look at than an arrogant asś.
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I’ve seen more than enough. Still not interested.
Jackson Wang (DA)
*look darkens as he takes a step back*
Jackson Wang (DA)
Fine. Fùck it.
Jackson Wang (DA)
I don’t need frostbite on my díck anyway
Jackson Wang (DA)
*turns and walking toward a table where another guy is sitting*
The sun is not bright today, considering the overcast.
We’re just a few of the people who opted for the patio instead of the inside of the coffee house, because it looks like it’s going to rain.
Even though they’re several tables away, I can still see his friend laughing and shaking his head as Mr. Arrogant plops down to his seat, surly and dejected.
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*resume watching the footage on his phone*
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*look up and catch the eyes studying him*
He’s not leering or even acting interested. I’d say he’s trying to read me, just the way I do people.
He’s also nice looking, but his suit is not as expensive as the other guy’s. My observation would lead me to believe they’re work mates, but why is one dressed better than the other if they do the same job?
He doesn’t seem submissive or weighted, he definitely is an Alpha, the way he looks is as if he was definitely not working for The other.
Which means they’re equals, but not paid the same? Or maybe Mr. Arrogant comes from money, and this guy doesn’t?
Either way, it’s none of my concern.
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*return his eyes to his phone, pretending he didn’t notice the intense scrutiny*
After finishing my coffee and my D-day screening, I ask the waitress for the bill.
Waitress
It’s already been paid *soft smile and bright eyes*
Waitress
And you’ve already left a tip as well
Waitress
*winks* A nice one.
Waitress
*motions back with her head*
Waitress
He said to thank you for the entertainment.
Waitress
*fanning herself and watching him walk toward a dark SUV*
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*standing up and heading toward the exit as well*
No flirting, no leering looks of longing, and no waiting around to see if I would come to him after he paid for my food.
I don’t like it when people are nice for no reason. Saying I was his entertainment isn’t enough.
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*eyes trail after the silent guy*
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*lingers by the SUV, speaking over the phone too quietly for anyone to hear his words from a distance*
Jackson Wang (DA)
*chatting up a pretty omega near the store down the sidewalk*
This one seems far more interested than I was.
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*head over to the silent guy*
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*ends his call, eyes snap up to the other*
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*approach, as he pull out a twenty*
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I don’t let strange men pay for my food. My mother taught me better.
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*waving the twenty in front of him to take*
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*slow grin crawls across his lips, completely transforming his face*
His dark hair is tousled just enough to be sexy without being bedhead messy. His strong, chiseled jaw is a stark contrast to his soft, brown eyes.
He looks fierce and gentle in the same breath, confusing me all the more.
I really can’t get a read on him.
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I couldn’t get a more entertaining show for so cheap. Trust me, it was worth the small bill.
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*says with a shrug, pocketing his hands and phone, making a stance that he won’t take the money, without using the actual words*
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*wave the twenty again*
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I still have my rules. Thanks, but no thanks.
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You always so defensive?
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Are you constantly worried about the intentions of others?
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Or is it an extreme feminist position that keeps you on edge about a male doing something as mediocre as paying for your coffee and muffin?
He is reading me. I knew it.
The cheap suit suddenly makes sense, along with the dark SUV.
I note, taking in the fact Quantico isn’t too far away.
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What makes you think that?
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You’re profiling me, for one, which would likely put you to be somewhere in that field, given the ride and attire.
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Your friend has an expensive suit that he wears to impress, but yours is less flashy.
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Your posture around him and good- natured ribbing towards him leads me to believe you’re equals, despite the financial difference.
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So I’m assuming he comes from money, and you’ve earned your own way.
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The SUV isn’t a standardized version. *points at the SUV behind*
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The blacked out windows are too dark to be legally tinted, but I know the FBI are given certain leniencies due to security risks.
I really hate the way he continues to smile, as though he’s only more intrigued instead of freaked out.
I wanted to freak him out.
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You’re not a paid profiler, not FBI, and not affiliated with any military unit,
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Your outfit is comfortable and practical, meaning you’re less worried about your outward appearance and more concerned with comfort.
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You sit alone by choice, and dismiss any attention sent your way. At first glance, you’re too feminist for your own good.
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At second glance, you’re someone who is hard to get close to because trust isn’t something you share too often.
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It keeps you from being hurt by people, but it also keeps you from having anyone in your life.
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At night, when you close your eyes and allow yourself to be vulnerable... that’s the only time you dare to wonder what it’d be like to be with someone.
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*swallow down the knot in his throat*
I shouldn’t be so easily readable.
I’ve trained against it for years.
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No pets, given the fact there’s not any pet hair on you, unless you have those who won’t shed.
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However, I don’t see you allowing yourself to become attached to an animal, when you know you’ll most likely outlive it and have to deal with the heartbreak of losing said animal.
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You’re detached by necessity, most likely a painful past that pushed you into this direction.
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A loss, perhaps. Maybe more than one loss. Maybe pushed into solitude by life and staying there by choice?
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*heart thumps in his chest as he takes a shaky step back*
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Sorry. I went too far. I apologize,
Jackson Wang (DA)
Haven’t lost my edge. That chick was just—
Jackson Wang (DA)
*words die when he sees him in an eye-lock*
I feel exposed, vulnerable, and out of my element.
I’m not used to that. I’ve worked so freaking hard to be a fortress of impossible reads.
Did He just unraveled my confidence with one pull on the right thread.
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Grab a few bottles of water. Long ride *tells Jackson without breaking eye contact*
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*stares back with the same intensity*
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Life sucks *says abruptly*
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Might as well live while you’re still alive. *sounding completely less insightful than earlier*
It’s enough to break the tension, and an unexpected smile slips free from me.
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*winks as he leans over*
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If you ever want help feeling alive, call me.
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I could use some life as well.
When he draws back, I feel something in my hand, though I never felt him placing anything there.
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* walks around to the other side of the SUV*
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*watch with rapt attention as he gets in*
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*eyes finally fall down to the card in his hand*
His number is attached to his name, and sure enough, he’s FBI.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
*leaning on the steering wheel, watching him*
Jackson Wang (DA)
*window down, looking annoyed*
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Call me *grinning before pulling away from the curb*
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one. Albert Einstein said that.
My father always quoted Einstein as a way of explaining life when we struggled to understand it.
I remember him quoting me that when our lives fell apart.
He was hurting the worst, and trying his best to soothe me.
Einstein isn’t helping me understand how easily I was just read.
Or how vulnerable and exposed I feel in this moment.
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*look down, seeing the alert on his phone*
It bought back reality, I have to be cold. I need to be cold.
Anything less could fracture the shell in place that I need to execute the plan I’ve worked too hard on for too long.
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*blow out a harsh breath and walk to his car*
I drive fifteen miles, find the house I’m looking for, and drive on by.
I wait until I’m parked in an abandoned barn before I put on my gloves, suit, and heavy Alpha men’s boots. I also strap on the backpacks weighted down with rocks... One on my back and one on my front.
Stealthily, I walk toward the house, slip open the door, and silently remove the backpacks, putting them down with careful ease to a chair.
My purse has everything I need in it, so I keep it on me. The heavy shoes come off next, and I silently place them on top of my backpack.
Movement upstairs draws my attention, and I slowly make my way to the staircase, careful to keep my steps light and silent.
I’ve examined the floors for a month, finding every spot that creaks or groans.
I know his routine better than my own. Just like I know in five seconds, the water will come on.
Sure enough, the old pipes in the house clank as water shoots through them, and that’s when I make my way up the stairs, ignoring the way they creak, because he can’t hear a thing with that loud shower.
When I reach his room, my eyes dart to the bed. I know he’s single, but I always worry about stumbling across an unplanned woman.
I watched the cameras from my phone, and they showed no woman here, but it’s still a thought that always plagues the back of my mind.
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*breathe out in relief when I see no signs of an overnight guest*
Just Ben and his usual messy home.
The shower cuts off, and I’m already in position, ready and waiting.
Life would be simpler if I could use a Taser or sedatives.
Just as he walks through with a towel around his waist, my knife comes down, slicing hard against the Achilles heel.
Screams pierce my ears, and I realize that moment of weakness with Mr. Profiler earlier doesn’t affect how pretty the screams sound.
I’ve worked too long, too hard, and too endlessly for this. I should have known one man couldn’t take away my edge.
Ben
*falls to the floor, crying out in agony, while clutching his foot*
The towel flops off, exposing every náked inch of him to my eyes.
But the terror in his eyes? That gets me high.
Ben
What the fuck? Take whatever you want!
He shouts, sobbing as I approach, watching him watch me with those wide, terrified eyes.
I want him to cry for much, much longer.
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What I want is for you to know my name,
Ben
*eyes grow even wider, and pales*
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*hold the bloody knife up and run his finger along the backside of it*
He begs, trying and failing to stand up.
He’ll hit me if he gets the chance.
I’m not stupid enough to get that close just yet.
I watch him as he watches me.
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*pull a wire from his back pocket*
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Don’t recognize me, Ben?
I ask mockingly, cocking my head.
Ten surgeries ago, he might have recognized me immediately.
Ben
I don’t know you. You have the wrong person!
I notice the way his gaze shifts.
He’s preparing to attack me now that I’m in this position.
He finds it a vulnerable mistake on my part.
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I was a sixteen-year-old little boy the last time you saw me,
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*say with a dark smile*
The last three words are what triggers recognition.
I see it in the way his pupils dilate, his nostrils flare, and a sense of understanding washes over his features
Ben
No. No. You look nothing like him.
I saw as his fear slowly starts to fade, just as I knew it would.
Right now, he’s remembering just how weak I was as that horrified, terrified, sobbing little omega.
He’s remembering how easily he overpowered me.
His mind is playing tricks on him that he’s still the one in control, despite the precariously deadly situation.
I go on, staying poised and ready, but outwardly displaying a weakness I don’t truly have, allowing his mind to continue to revert back to that night ten years ago.
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That means three pounds of flesh over the next three days.
Ben
*launches himself at, screaming in pain as he tries to tackle “him” to the floor*
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*Slams the knife into his shoulder*
Another bloodcurdling scream erupts through the air as I spin on my knees, sliding in behind him as his face plants into the floor.
My hand is still holding the knife, and I rip it away in less than a blink, almost simultaneously tossing the wire around his neck, winding it tightly.
Then I choke him, reveling in the pained sounds, until he grows limp and unconscious, riding the line of life and death.
With the blood loss, he’s too weak to fight back. It’d be so easy to kill him right now.
But death won’t come too soon.
I don’t believe in mercy.
Three pounds of flesh will be extracted while he’s awake.
Lazy author
I know I know I have not been a nice author for a long time.
Lazy author
It’s writers block speaking ig.
Lazy author
Like someone robbed be of my time and skill to sit and write.
Lazy author
So I decided I will do a novel adaptation while I am on my block.
Lazy author
And given this novel is the best choice….someone wrote it in MT in Taekook ver.
Lazy author
I was reading and I was new so it never occurred to me to download it, before it got deleted halfway.
Lazy author
I found the novel read it, and guess what it was the best so now I am writing it.
Lazy author
I am not sure how it’s gonna turn out….but honestly Idgaf I am writing cause I loved it.
Lazy author
Hope my Vkuplings love it too.
Lazy author
This is gonna be my Tae top CS.
Chapter 2
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
I finish off my croissant while staring at the gory crime scene photos.
Blood is smeared across the walls with a paintbrush, just like the other four cases we’ve managed to link together.
It’s one of the few things that remains consistent.
The unsub always paints a wall red with the victim’s blood.
Bae Suzy (DO)
How can you eat while seeing that?
Suzy asks while wrinkling her nose and sitting down on the edge of my desk.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
What did they find out about Ben Harris?
Sensitive content ahead ⚠️
Bae Suzy (DO)
The M.E. estimated that he was tortured for at least three days.
Bae Suzy (DO)
He has parts of him that have been cut off, just like the others. Including the penís *sighs*
That has me cringing, just like any man would.
One of these images is supposed to be a dismembered penís?
Bae Suzy (DO)
His fingers were all cut off *pointing at one picture that was snapped of ten severed fingers lying on the ground*
Bae Suzy (DO)
His chest was slowly pulled off piece by piece.
Bae Suzy (DO)
The unsub stopped the bleeding each time by using a barbaric method of cauterization.
Bae Suzy (DO)
He wanted the victim alive for those three days specifically.
Bae Suzy (DO)
His penís seems to be the last thing to have gone.
Bae Suzy (DO)
Ligature marks were found again, and chains were hanging from his basement rafters.
Bae Suzy (DO)
We think the unsub stayed true to his profile, leaving the victim strung up in their own home.
Bae Suzy (DO)
So far, all the men have had isolated homes too far away for any neighbors to overhear or see anything.
Jackson Wang (DA)
The unsub should be a female, considering the groin mutilation in all the kills.
Jackson said, shuddering as he walks up on our conversation
Jackson Wang (DA)
Only a woman could handle cutting off a man’s junk.
Bae Suzy (DO)
Women serial killers statistically don’t torture.
Bae Suzy (DO)
They’re actually far more efficient and harder to track down because of that.
Han Ji-sung (SO)
Well, he has to be impotent. Most serial killers are.
There’s a reason he and Jackson are not profilers.
Bae Suzy (DO)
I think he’s more of a sexual sadist
Bae Suzy (DO)
Impotence likely plays a part, but just calling them impotent isn’t a profile.
Jackson Wang (DA)
So an impotent sexual sadist? *confused*
Bae Suzy (DO)
Sexual sadists are often impotent, and they seek out their sexual release through the torture.
Bae Suzy (DO)
No signs of rápe were found, but it’s likely the unsub hasn’t evolved and grown the confidence to rápe the men yet.
Jackson Wang (DA)
So a gay sexual sadist?
Kim Taehyung (DA)
All of the male victims were straight Alphas, according to witnesses.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
If they were gay, that theory would make more sense..
Kim Taehyung (DA)
All five men were from the same town, yet no one can think of any man who might want to kill all five.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
However, I know we’re missing something.
Bae Suzy (DO)
Footprints are a size twelve man’s shoe made in the dirt on the way to the house.
Bae Suzy (DO)
The footprint is solid from heel to toe. Our field expert says that the unsub weighs between two-ten and two-fifteen
Kim Taehyung (DA)
He’d have to be physically fit to be able to overpower these men the way the unsub has. And very built, most likely.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
The unsub is overpowering them with sheer brute force. Originally he was only killing dominant alphas, which led to the profile being an alpha serial.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
But Ben, although physically fit and strong, was very submissive in his line of work.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
It was why he was so successful, because he liked being in the background instead of in charge.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Sexual sadism is far more likely, since the last kill.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
There may be a sexually frustrated trigger, which should narrow down our search.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
We should also adjust the profile.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
What else do we know about the victims?
Bae Suzy (DO)
These guys were tops of their classes in college, but they were all different ages—from twenty-three to twenty-eight.
Bae Suzy (DO)
Victimology only links them through the town and through their isolated homes.
Bae Suzy (DO)
They haven’t kept in contact, even though they were all friendly when they still lived in town.
Bae Suzy (DO)
It’s possible the unsub hates the whole town, but why? Is it part vengeance?
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Possibly *mumbles*
One kill in Boston. One kill in Denver. One kill in Long Island. One kill in Maine.
And now one kill in our own backyard in Virginia.
This guy is all over the map, shitting all over a normal hunting ground pattern.
It would seem random if we hadn’t made the connection to the same home town. But not the same school. Three of them went to a private school two towns over.
So obviously this isn’t an old grudge dated back to school ages, especially given the age gap in the victims that would put them in different grades too.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
No kills have been reported in town *groan*
Kim Taehyung (DA)
If it was just two, I’d call it a coincidence. But it’s five from that town, yet no deaths within the town limits.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
What do we know about the town?
Bae Suzy (DO)
Small. Very small. Five hundred is the population.
Bae Suzy (DO)
In the past three years, nothing of any real interest has made the news, other than a wolf that attacked a man in his cow pasture.
Bae Suzy (DO)
Very religious town.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Small, religious towns are notorious for making it hard on gay males especially alphas.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
You and Soobin head out there and see what you can find out.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Ask about a physically fit alpha male over six feet tall, age twenty to thirty-five, who might have been gay or showed interest in alpha males.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Given the religious aspect, it’s doubtful he came out.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Ask if anyone seemed to struggle or demonstrate a nervous tic frequently after having any sort of contact with an attractive male.
I purse my lips, wondering what we’re missing.
The profile appears solid, and the evidence lines up to support it, but something just feels off.
We should have made the connection sooner, but with all the kills so spread out over state lines, we just got wind of this two weeks ago, which was two weeks after the fourth victim.
Bae Suzy (DO)
Anything else I need to note to the profile before we deliver it to the town’s PD?
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Yeah *Sits up studying the pictures*
Kim Taehyung (DA)
The unsub managed to enter each home without it looking broken into.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Either the victims know the unsub and trust him enough to let him in, or they didn’t lock their doors.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Tell them this unsub would have had to be social with them in order to establish that rapport.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Also, have we found out what trophy is being taken?
Kim Taehyung (DA)
The unsub has a personal attachment to these men, and has a sadistic fantasy he’s playing out with each kill, though ràpe doesn’t seem to be a part of the fantasy just yet.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Obviously he’s getting off on the torture alone for now, but given the long gap between kills, he’d need something to hold him over.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
He’d definitely be taking a trophy.
One month between each kill. The time frame hasn’t been changed, and it doesn’t look like the unsub is falling apart any time soon, if ever.
I was hoping for a rapid devolution that would cause him to start slipping up by now.
Bae Suzy (DO)
We’ve checked the bodies over. All the flesh is left behind, and the hair is intact.
Bae Suzy (DO)
Also, none of the males were missing jewelry or other personal items, but we can’t know for sure, since they all lived alone and had no one to account for their belongings.
We’re missing something, damn it. And it’s driving me crazy.
Bae Suzy (DO)
Go home and get some rest.
Bae Suzy (DO)
You’ve been here all night *placing her hand on his shoulder*
Bae Suzy (DO)
A mind works better after some rest.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Dig deeper into the town’s past.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Something has happened there that we don’t know about, and—
Bae Suzy (DO)
Rest *cuts him off*
Bae Suzy (DO)
I know how to do my job.
Bae Suzy (DO)
You’re useless if you don’t sleep.
Cursing, I stand up and close the file, packing it up as Suzy leaves with Soobin to head up north to Delaney Grove.
It’s an odd town name, and I know I’ll have to see it for myself to get any real answers.
Just as I reach the door, Jackson catches up to me.
Jackson Wang (DA)
Did frostbite omega ever give you a call?
But I know it still pisses him off that he blew him off and chased me down.
Even though he viewed the facts out of context and refused to take in the real process of those events.
Again, that’s why he sucks at profiling, but he’s good at public relations— his place on our team.
I open my mouth to tell him ‘no’, knowing it will make him feel vindicated and delighted, but my phone rings.
My brow furrows when I see the unknown number, and I answer.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Agent Kim here.
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📲 You use your last name when answering a phone, as though the person on the other line might not know whom they’ve just dialed.
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📲 It’s a very impersonal greeting, which makes me wonder if you also struggle with detachment issues, Agent Kim.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
*smile immediately forms, as he winks at Jackson*
Jackson stood there waiting to be put out of his nosy misery.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 So you really waited the standard three days to give me a call back?
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📲 Technically, I waited a nonconventional four days.
Right. I haven’t been to sleep since we found the latest victim yesterday morning.
I’m running on caffeine and sugar.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Sorry. I’ve been up all night. It’s not another day until I’ve slept, so I’m still on day three.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Will I have to wait four days in between all your calls?
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Or am I allowed to use this number when I want to?
Jackson Wang (DA)
*groans and huffs, pouting as he moves out of the way*
He’s got the answer he’s looking for.
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📲 Why have you been up all night?
He is diverting the question I asked him.
It’s a typical reaction from someone with detachment issues.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 My job. I miss a lot of sleep, and spend a lot of time on the road.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 I guess I need to say that now before asking you out on a date I may or may not have to cancel because of said job.
I decide to toss everything out there right away, knowing he’s already skittish and leery of trusting.
The second I read him, he went from cold to haunted in a blink, and those haunted eyes have been seared into my memory.
With his defenses down, he was lost, almost worried about being hurt just from speaking to me.
Call it a hero complex, but I found myself drawn to him right then.
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📲 I miss a lot of things too, and I keep weird hours.
My smile only grew, since he’s opening up.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 What do you do?
He laughs lightly, and it’s a damn good laugh to hear.
It doesn’t fit him though.
It’s an easy, free laugh, as though he’s not even the same guy I spoke to a few days ago
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📲 I have an online buy, sell, and trade store.
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📲 I take a cut from each sell or trade made, and I have to vet some of them if the deal looks too good to be true.
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📲 For instance, I might have to take a spontaneous trip in the middle of the night if someone in Florida is trying to trade a million dollar yacht for ten thousand dollar car.
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📲 I can’t approve a trade like that until I physically inspect the merchandise and see the proper paperwork.
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📲 For sales, I can just hold the money paid until the property gets transferred. Trades, however, have to be done by the customers. I’m just a third party arranger who occasionally inspects.
Listening to him talk with such ease is a little confusing to the way I had him depicted... I profiled him as detached and defensive, not easy-natured.
Maybe I’m off my game because I’m tired and hearing ease when it’s really strain.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Sounds like fun though
Again, I blame sleep deprivation.
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📲 Not always. Once I had to go inspect one of those ‘real’ dolls. You know? The sèx dolls that are realistically made, unlike the blowup dolls.
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📲 They’re worth like five grand and the guy was trading it for a small pony... Don’t even get me started with the concern there.
A laugh escapes me before I can stop it, and I feel him smile.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Is that the weirdest thing you’ve ever inspected?
??
📲 While examining the vaginà of a synthetic woman made complete with
suction in all holes wasn’t the highlight of my career, it surprisingly wasn’t the weirdest.
Again, I laugh, wondering why his switch has flipped from defensive to charming over the course of four days.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 So what was the weirdest?
??
📲 Tit for tat. What’s the weirdest case you’ve ever worked?
I think about that as I get in my car.
Most of the cases I work are serious, violent, and sadistic. But when I first started...
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 I got recruited while I was in college after taking a test I didn’t realize was for the FBI. They decided I needed to come work for them, and I didn’t see any reason to argue.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Anyway, my first case was a small one in Indiana. It was a pèrv who was collecting pantiès.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 At first glance, the guy was a sèxual deviant who would eventually escalate to harder crimes than panty thieving. It’s why they called us in, because all these women were terrified of a stalker breaking into their homes and stealing their underwear.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 But the deeper I delved, the more I realized it was actually a juvenile kid.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 I still thought he was having sexual fantasies. It wasn’t until later we discovered he wasn’t stealing the panties for him.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 He was stealing them for his mother, because she always griped about her ‘cheap underwear riding up into the crack of her aśs.’ You don’t even want to know how horrified the mother was when we finally found the kid.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 He hadn’t given her the underwear yet. He was putting them all in a box to give her for Christmas.
I relax in my seat while driving out of Quantico, heading toward my house.
??
📲 Sounds awkward. But at least the kid wasn’t a sexual deviant.
There’s a tense note to his tone, but then he clears her throat while I yawn.
??
📲 You really do sound tired. I’ll let you go.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 I’m driving home. I have thirty minutes of free time.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Keep me company.
??
📲 Hmm, I guess you still want me to be your entertainment.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 I’d ask for more than just an amusing phone conversation, but I have to head back in as soon as I get some sleep.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 We had something new turn up in one of our cases, which means the workload is fresh again.
??
📲 Hmmm, what would you ask for if you were able to ask for it?
He asks, sounding like he’s flirting now, which negates the defensive stance he held just days ago.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 I’d ask for dinner.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Maybe even a movie if dinner went well and you didn’t have any deal-breaking faults.
??
📲What faults would those be?
??
📲 Inquiring minds and all that.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 The usual. Eating boogers. Drinking urinè...
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Fetish where you’d be the one fúcking me.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 I’m not into any of that.
He starts laughing harder this time, and I listen, soaking it in.
I don’t know why it feels like I’ve accomplished something by making him laugh.
Then again, something tells me he probably doesn’t do it too often.
??
📲 Well, I never adopted a booger-eating habit.
??
📲 Drinking uríne doesn’t appeal to me. I’ll just have a beer if I’m in the mood to drink something akin to piss.
??
📲 And I’ll hide my fetish to top until you’re a little more comfortable with your sexuality to give it a go.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Taking a jab at my sexuality. Nice, *state dryly*
Listening to him laugh some more, I continue to smile.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 So how do you profile people?
I muse when his laughter tapers off.
??
📲 How do I do it? Or why do I do it?
??
📲 Well, I do it mostly based on body language in person, and micro-expressions, of course.
??
📲 I pay attention to the wording when it’s in writing. I listen to tone and wording over the phone.
??
📲 I do it because I run that online site, and you have to know the bull-shitters from the legitimate users.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 You run the store alone?
I, hedg for more personal info.
??
📲 I have a business partner. He handles all the tech work, and developed a program to flag potential fake accounts.
??
📲 It cuts out a lot of hands-on work, even though we still sift through the accounts personally.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 This male partner, I assume an Alpha is just a friend?
He hesitates, but then he sounds amused.
??
📲 If you’re asking if I’m single, the answer is yes.
??
📲 Have been for a while. I wouldn’t have called you and flirted if I was with someone else.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Well, it sucks that I can’t take you out tonight before you get tired of waiting on me to have a free second. I’ll be working overtime in search of new leads.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 But if you’re up for coffee, I can meet you in the same place we met on my way back into the office in a few hours.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Say five or so?
??
📲 I prefer coffee in the mornings, but you can buy me a muffin.
??
📲 They have excellent muffins.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Coffee in the mornings *grin growing*
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Duly noted.
??
📲 Are you flirting with me, Agent Kim?
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Maybe a little. Are you ever going to tell me your name?
??
📲 You don’t know my name.
??
📲 It’s dangerous to talk to strangers, you know.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 I’m aware. I profile serials for a living.
He’s a somewhat tiny thing with haunted eyes, yet joking I should be wary of him.
I’m sure the fact he knows I have a badge puts him at ease; he assumes all law officials are good souls with clean intentions.
That tells me he’s never been in trouble with the law or had any issues with them at all.
His voice hitched a little, reminding me what I’ve said.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Serial offenders.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 I graduated from serial panty robbers to serial killers.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Hope that’s not an issue.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 I’ve had problems in the past keeping a relationship because of that.
??
📲 But shouldn’t you keep things like that quiet from strangers?
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 It’s not classified. I’ve been on the news a time or two speaking.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 And besides, I’d rather we weren’t strangers. So what’s your name?
He pauses for longer than I’d like.
I’ve gotten him wrong and right, but I’m not sure to what degrees on either front.
So I don’t even bother guessing why he’s quiet.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
📲 It’s Jungkook, Jeon Jungkook.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
📲 Feel free to investigate me, Mr. Profiler.
The light tone is back, and I cut down the final road to lead me home.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 I’d rather you surprise me, Jeon Jungkook. I only run a non-invasive background check to make sure you’re not a felon or fugitive.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 That could be an issue, given my job *laughs lightly*
He laughs as well, then sighs.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Coffee later?
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
📲 Muffin, remember?
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Right. Sorry. Sleep deprived.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
📲 I’ll see you later, Agent Kim.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
📲 Definitely *yawn*
He hangs up, and I immediately type in his name in a text to Hope.
Jung Hoseok (DO)
💬 What am I looking for?
Kim Taehyung (DA)
💬 A criminal record only.
Jung Hoseok (DO)
💬Done and Done. He’s clean.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
💬 That was fast.
Jung Hoseok (DO)
💬 That’s what he said.
Chuckling, I put my phone away, and I walk inside.
My mind is tired, but I’m still running facts of the case over in my head, thinking of anything we might be missing.
The unsub tortures his victims for days, but not for the same amount of days. Three days this last time. Two days apiece on the first two victims. Four days on the third and fourth victims. The lack of consistency doesn’t make sense, neither does the targeted skin that is removed.
It’s always different, except for the damn díck removal. Sometimes all the fingers are cut off. Sometimes they’re not.
My house is empty, quiet, and somewhat eerie, considering the case I’m working on.
All the victims are a reflection of myself. Single. Alone. Physically fit. Living in a secluded area. Workaholics.
My closest neighbor is a mile down the road.
No one notices the victims missing for days on end. They all call into work. It’s a taped recording of a man’s voice, from what we can surmise, considering the words are exactly the same.
None of the businesses record those calls, obviously, so we’re having to trust the person who received the call.
The last body was only found because one of his work colleagues came to find out why he didn’t come to work on the fourth day and never called in for that day
It’s depressing to know that no one outside of work notices them missing.
The same would hold true for myself.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
*eyes scan the house out of habit*
I look for anything out of place.
Once I feel confident nothing has been disturbed, I take off my gun, set my alarm, and then I drop to the bed.
My eyes close, and I expect to see the images of dead bodies like I always do.
Instead, I’m lost in a set of haunted green eyes I’ll be seeing later.
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Chapter 3
When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
It’s after five when I start looking at my watch, wondering if I really am being stood up this time.
I’m not sure what compelled me to call him, flirt with him, then agree to a date.
Maybe it’s because I need to feel less like a cold monster and more like an omega.
I lived, yet I feel dead.
Maybe I want to feel alive, considering my time may be limited.
I should treasure every moment...when I’m not collecting on an overdue debt.
It’s not exactly romantic to think of a guy while you’re slicing another one to pieces, but Taehyung was definitely on my mind during the three days I spent reaping the debt from Ben.
Not in the dark recesses of my mind that are reserved for revenge either.
Taehyung was in the good parts that I thought no longer existed.
He awakened a long-gone light as though not all the good inside me had been destroyed.
Just as I’m about to text him and find out if he’s okay, there’s suddenly a body sliding into the seat in front of me, and my eyes pop up to meet a set of almonds.
I could stare at those eyes all day.
The rest of him measures up to those perfect eyes too.
He’s sin and pleasure wrapped in a package I’m tempted to peek at.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
So sorry.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
*groans, motioning a waitress over*
Kim Taehyung (DA)
There was a traffic jam.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
I actually had to abuse my power and hit the lights just to get through.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
*smile*
My smile surprises me every time he makes me use it.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
It’s fine. I was just worried.
I was worried about him, and I was worried I’d been stood up.
His grin is genuine and instant when he sees I’m not pissed, and the waitress shows up, ending the moment of two idiots grinning at each other.
I honestly can’t remember a time when my stomach was fluttering around.
I was just a teenager when my life was shattered and the illusion of normality forever stayed out of my grasp.
This is the most human I’ve felt in so long.
And it’s just a coffee drive-by on his way to work.
Waitress
*Eyes both Taehyung and Jungkook with a smirk*
We both order, and the waitress walks away after giving him a quick once over and winking at me as though she approves.
Not that I need her approval.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
So, what made you agree to meet me?
He questions, apparently skipping small talk.
I guess that’s wise, since our time will be limited.
Not to mention he interrogates for a living, so it’s only natural to start a date out that way with him.
I decide against telling him that he makes me feel like an omega instead of the monster I’ve had to become, since he’d sort of lock me up and throw away the key.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
What made you want to ask me out?
Kim Taehyung (DA)
*grin spread wider*
Kim Taehyung (DA)
You’re deflecting, but I’ll bite. You’ve been in my head.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Your turn. *leaning up on the table with his elbows*
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
You’ve been in my head too.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Ah, see, that’s cheating.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
You can’t just parrot my words to keep from disclosing too much.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
That’s a commonly used tool in a detached personality.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
Stop profiling me
I say with a teasing smile, but secretly hoping he really does stop.
What if he sees too much? What the hell am I thinking?
This is the stupidest date I could possibly go on.
I finally meet a guy I want to see, perhaps even date, and it has to be the one guy who could see right through me?
He’s studying me too intensely, but I keep my smile in place, hoping it doesn’t seem strained.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Occupational hazard. I can’t turn it off.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
I wish I could, but I can’t.
He continues to await my reaction, and I try to think of how to properly react.
How do normal person react? Do they gush and goo over his badge and skills?
Do they get offended by his admission of constant profiling, feeling like he won’t let them have that privacy?
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
How much has that affected your dating life?
I decided not to react at all and keep my expressions masked.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
*groans while shaking his head and leaning back*
Kim Taehyung (DA)
More than I care to admit.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Omegas and women prefer to tell me how they feel, as opposed to me pointing it out. I’ve tried to stop, but can’t.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Consider it a weird personality quirk.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
I was hopeful with you; you seem to do the same thing.
His eyes find mine, and he really does seem hopeful.
But for completely different reasons.
He serves justice the best he can.
I serve revenge in the way it needs to be.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
What’s your dating life like?
Like a cobweb with a bunch of dead bugs in it... Again, not the most appropriate answer.
Waitress
*comes and drops off small order*
I try to think of the best answer, waiting until she leaves to respond.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
A little dry at the moment.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Ouch. *grin*
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
Well, not at this exact moment *smile*
I feel that stupid, uncontrollable smile spread again.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
So tell me about you.
He gestures toward me with one hand while using his other to bring the coffee to his lips.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
Twenty-six. New to the area. Constantly moving. And I have an odd fixation with socks.
He frowns, as though something doesn’t sit well with him.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
You move a lot?
he questioned, not answering my question. We do that to each other, I guess.
Avoid answering questions to ask our own.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
Yeah. I’ve lived in almost thirty states. Growing up was sort of boring.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
We lived in one town. It was small, and everyone knew everything about everyone.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
After my parents died, it just got worse. Anyway, I’ve moved all over, trying to find what feels like home.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Any luck here?
I barely know him, so telling him he’s the first thing that’s piqued my interest this much would definitely be coming on too strong.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
So your parents...
He lets the words trail off, seeming reluctant to fully ask what he wants to know.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
Car accident
I partially lie, forcing a tight smile.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
It was years ago. Now, about you?
I muse, desperately ready for a subject shift.
He flashes me a smile, but it doesn’t reach his eyes.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
Twenty-nine. I own a house on a quiet piece of land. It was my stepdad’s, but he left it to me before he died.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
My mother is living with her newest husband in Miami. So it’s just me.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
What about your birth dad?
I realize too late that I shouldn’t be prying that deep, when I don’t want him prying too.
Neither of us gets the chance to pry.
His phone chirps, drawing his attention to it, and he sighs in a way that probably means our short and sweet talk is over.
he cursed under his breath, causing my lips to twitch.
It’s just a word, but I was starting to worry that he was a total choir boy.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
*eyes pop back up to meet the younger*
Kim Taehyung (DA)
I hate to leave this early, but—
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
It’s fine
I interrupt, ignoring the small pang of disappointment.
He tosses down a twenty, which is more than enough to cover the possible ten dollar bill.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
I really am sorry *stands while cursing under his breath*
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
*stands following the older*
I stand and make things awkward, because I don’t know if I should hug him, touch him at all, or wave like an idiot.
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
*wave like an idiot*
Kim Taehyung (DA)
*smirks, arching an eyebrow at the younger*
Kim Taehyung (DA)
I’ll call you later?
Kim Taehyung (DA)
*smirk turning into a smile*
I’m busy feeling like an ass, so I just nod.
I really don’t trust my mouth to be any less stupid than this incredibly awkward wave that I’m still doing.
It’s like my hand has lost touch with my brain, and the damn thing is still waving.
His phone rings this time.
Kim Taehyung (DA)
*Smiles before turning and walks away while answering*
Jeon Jungkook (DO)
*drop back down to his seat*
I wonder how planning out a brutal murder is easier than dating
The world is entirely too fucked up.
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