"Do not be afraid, our fate cannot be taken away from us. It's a gift."

-- Dante Alighieri

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Taehyung Pov

"Leave when I'm still being nice, what's in your head will never happen," I warned but she looked at me with confident eyes. She couldn't be this confident if she didn't have something secretly planned.

"Are you sure?" She smirked, slightly tugging up her bloody red gown, and sat across me. "I will take Goguryeo. At the end of the day, all three kingdoms will be mine." Her eyes enlarged as she talked.

I chuckled in disgust, "in your dreams, Jeah."

"We'll see."

"Jeah!" I yelled when she placed a knife on Valeria's neck, right above her skin. Valeria trembled, her teary eyes met mine. "Let her go!" I demanded.

"Why would I? She tricked me," Jeah laughed evilly, the knife cutting into her pale skin, blood dripped down from it. I panicked when I saw Valeria in pain. Left with no choice, I pushed Jeah, getting her off from Valeria. She was strong but I'm a man. I grabbed her arms, making her dropped the knife.

"Go get Namjoon," I told Valeria and she ran off.

I gasped and rose from my bed. My eyes searched around to see myself in my hotel room. I flipped my phone over and called her.

"Tae?" Her gracious voice answered.

"Hi, um- I just want to check up on you." I inhaled deeply, soothing my breathing.

"Oh, o-okay. Why do you- did something happened? How is America?" Violet queried.

"Everything's great, it's just- you're not here," I answered honestly. I know I should stay close to her to protect her from our threat, but I cannot neglect my members. I wasn't joking, nothing seems interesting without her.

"I miss you too, Tae." She chuckled softly. "Go back to sleep, it should be early in the morning at your place. You have performances tomorrow, am I correct?"

"Yea."

"Sleep, we'll see each other in a few weeks, sleep well, I love you." After hearing her voice, I felt calmer.

"Wait- call me if anything happened, okay?" I added.

"What could happen?"

"Just tell me everything, please sweetheart."

"Okay."

I caressed the scarf around her neck. She showed me a reassuring smile, telling me she's fine. What happened days ago was horrifying, I thought I was going to lose her.

I gently took off her scarf, letting it fall to the ground. Her eyes were pierced into mine, I touched the scar on her neck, burying my head into the crook of her neck. Valeria patted my back, comforting me.

"Everything's over now. Jeah is in jail, nobody will threaten Goguryeo and Baekje now, our kingdoms are safe." Valeria said with her dulcet voice.

"You should have told me she was threatening you, we could avoid this from happening." I pulled away from the hug.

"I'm sorry. I didn't think it was a big deal. I've known for my whole life that my step-mother is crazy, she wanted to take my dad's kingdom from the day she stepped into our castle. My dad was too blind to see. I didn't know she was brave enough to think she can rule Goguryeo." Valeria explained. Jeah is a demon, she used the most inhuman ways to take whatever she wants, she even wanted to take over my things, I was definitely not letting that happen.

"I'll protect you, Baekje and Goguryeo, Valeria. At all costs."

Violet Pov

After receiving the phone call from Taehyung, I didn't seem to throw away the thoughts in my head.

Especially when he said, "Just tell me everything, please sweetheart."

That sentence felt like there were many meanings behind. My instinct tells me, there's something to do with his past.

In some ways, I wished there were some methods to insert Valeria's memories in my head. Then maybe I could relate to Taehyung more, then maybe he would be happy if I was more like her.

However, think deeply. What if I lost myself, who I am right now? The answer is always telling me that I should accept the fact that I am not Valeria. She is my past. I have to trust that Taehyung is loving because I'm me, and not her.

I was dying to know what happened a thousand years ago. Taehyung mentioned something about ending up as a tragedy. He became immortal because he begged God to give him a chance, so he's here, today.

To this day, things are still very messy. If now, the present is a chance for Taehyung to make things right for us, what is it that he needs to protect us from. What's the fear in his heart? I have to know to help him fight over this. We deserve a happy ending, everyone does, no?

The doorbell rang. Jisoo was working so it was me alone in our apartment. I made my way to the front door and opened it.

There's no one outside.

A box enclosed with yellow tape was sitting on the floor. I wrapped my blanket around me when the cold wind breezed. I quickly take the box and headed inside.

I put the box on the kitchen counter and took a pair of scissors. Checking if there's any information written on the box but there was none. Did Jisoo buy something online?

I cut the box and opened it.

I stumbled backward, covering my wide opened mouth.

A bloody pig's heart was inside the box with a sharp knife stabbed into the middle.

The piece of paper had something written on it with blood.

I gulped thickly, it reads.

Leave him.

I have a thing with pig's heart since I dissected it in Biology class, so...it's always appearing in my book, I don't know why. Lol.

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