Prince of My Heart Episode 16

For the past week.... Taehyung had tried...tried—to steady himself...to push away the persistent thoughts of that masked man...

And yet... no matter how much he willed himself to forget... those eyes—those hauntingly beautiful, piercing eyes would not leave his mind....

It infuriated him...

Every time he closed his own eyes... he saw them staring back at him....They weren’t just ordinary eyes..... They held something more...

No one ever looked at Taehyung like that....People either feared him, respected him...or desired him....But that masked man… he had met Taehyung’s gaze as if they stood on equal ground.... As if he was unaffected by the weight of his title....he was unbothered by his presence...

And Taehyung hated how much that intrigued him.....

Tonight was no different.... He had locked himself in his private chamber... determined to distract himself with work... reports, and security briefings.... Yet, as the hours stretched he realized he had read the same paragraph three times and still hadn’t processed a single word.....

His grip tightened around the pen in his hand before he finally gave up and set it down with an exasperated sigh....

He needed another drink.... Rising from his chair... he walked toward liquor cabinet in the corner of the room....It had been months...maybe even a year—since he last poured himself a drink.... Taehyung never needed alcohol to escape.... He had always been in control...

But tonight… his mind was torturing him....

he lifted his glass to his lips...the burn of whiskey dulling the thoughts that refused to leave him alone.... He took slow sips... staring into the dimly lit fireplace...watching the flames flicker and restless, like his own mind....

And then... something strange happened....

He blinked...His brows furrowed in confusion as he looked down....

His hand was gripping the silk sheets of his bed.... A bed he had not laid in for years....

His entire body stiffened... How? he never let himself to relaxed on bed ....even the thought of sitting in it he felt something crawled on his body.....then how he sat on it and didn't even realized....

here he was... seated at the edge of it... lost so deeply in his thoughts that he hadn't even realized when he moved....

He stood up from it like it was a plaque....His fingers curled into fists....This was his last straw....

Whatever this was... it needed to stop....

With swift determination...he pulled out his phone and pressed a single number.... The line barely rang once before a voice answered....

kim namjoon

"Your Highness?" Namjoon’s voice was steady..professional, yet laced with mild surprise....prince taehyung rarely called him at this hour....

Kim Taehyung (crown prince)

"Find out everything about the man we encountered at the cemetery last week..." Taehyung commanded...

kim namjoon

A pause.... A rare moment of hesitation from Namjoon.... "Your Highness... his face was covered.... We have no information on him..." Namjoon replied carefully...

Kim Taehyung (crown prince)

Taehyung’s jaw clenched... Damn that mask.... "Then find something..." he ordered.. Final... "I don’t care how long it takes... I want to know who he is..."

Kim Taehyung (crown prince)

kim namjoon

Namjoon hesitated for a second longer before responding.. "Understood."

As the call ended...Taehyung exhaled slowly... setting the phone down beside him...

For the first time in his life... he felt out of control.... Who was this boy...? And why out of the billions of people in this world...had this one man managed to shake the unshakable Crown Prince..?

Taehyung didn’t know the answer....But one thing was certain—he would find him....

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