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The Royal Alpha finished the second round of the southern territories, walking slowly with his hands placed securely behind his back. However, his mind was occupied by something else. The suffocation in his throat wasn't painful anymore, the unbearable control he needed to inhabit before facing the omega wasn't unbearable anymore. The immense anger that flew through his veins whenever the Omega opened his mouth, wasn't immense anymore. It is there but not like before…

And that's the thing that is bothering the king for a while now. His left hand comes up, pushing his hair backward from his forehead, and then tying them with the other hand by the band. He tied his hair in a half bun but still, a few stubborn shards fell across his eyes. 

The Alpha wandered around aimlessly, mind buzzing when a warm breeze of night twirled the little tresses back to his ears. He focussed ahead and found a big oak tree, so he decided to sit there for a while. 

Balancing his body with ease the Alpha climbed to the most top branch before settling on it with his legs dangling on either side and back resting against the trunk of the tree.

The warm wind felt soothing across his face and Taehyung closed his eyes involuntarily. The rainy season is near, he can sense it in the misty air. 

They have decided to renovate this land at the very right time, one less day, and the entire hard work will go in vain. He should start ploughing the field right after the arrival of cattle.

With a long sigh of relief, Taehyung opened his eyes and looked up. The night was starry, so many stars covering the entire expanse of the sky without any sense of partiality. 

His eyes roamed over the sky and stopped at the most radiating object, the moon. The suffocation came back along with the anger, his jaw ticked in a sneer before averting his eyes from it.

What's bothering you at this hour, your Majesty? Van was aware of the King's inner turmoil but sometimes the wolf needed to communicate just to be sure that the person it shares its soul with is the same person as before.

Taehyung heard the voice but his mind wasn't prepared to answer it. What answer does he have? that his mind is occupied by a person that he didn't want to do anything with. A person that he wants to stay away from? 

Yet his eyes still moved in the direction where they can clearly see the white pavilion, so far but so clearly. The Alpha can even hear the soft puffs of the omega, an assurance that the latter is in deep slumber. 

"Just today, I said that he is no different." Taehyung wished he was right. But running away from reality is not something an Alpha should do, the Royal Alpha knows the truth and now… feeling it too.

"But…" 

But he can't speak it out. His insides were screaming at him that once he let it out, the reality will become nothing but a myth and a new chapter of lie will begin the same as…before.

"But he is different." 

Taehyung's eyes moistened but his face was still stoic, with no expressions visible at all. He nodded his head, just a little shake downward as if he was accepting it. 

"How? How is he different, your Majesty?" The wolf was sitting calmly in his subconscious mind, leaning on his hind legs, front paws straight supporting his posture. 

Taehyung blinked his eyes, not letting the moment affect him. Though If he had any solution for this suffocation, he would have taken it even if he had to slice his neck off. He hadn't breathed fresh air for a long while. In between the passing years, the Alpha had somehow balanced his life alongside this suffocation but right now… each inhale held a tremendous amount of hard work, and with every exhale he was losing a piece of himself, more and more.

His eyes fell over his wrist, staring at the blue bracelet that had kept a hold around his wrist for close to a year now. He touched it, using the fingertips of his other hand. The thread of the bracelet seemed fragile yet his grasp was firm. His fingertips roamed across the breaded thread, covering each knot of the design. 

"One was the child of a goddess. One is the child of an evil woman." 

The first tear rolled down and the drop fell right onto the thread, absorbing the wetness, a part of the thread became dark blue. 

"One was loved by everyone. One is left uncared."

A part of Taehyung was burning and his chest was feeling intolerable as if someone was stabbing him again and again. His thumb tried to wipe the wetness from the thread but then another tear fell, making another dark patch on the thread.

"One was freed to live. One is captured."

The throb inside his chest was unnatural, as if something was beating inside him. He hadn't felt that in a…long while. He ignored it, inhaling again just to pass the vibration by weighing it with air.

"One was worshipped for being an omega. One is humiliated." 

Van was listening, his eyes holding the same emotion as the human ones yet he kept the silence. He can stop breathing altogether just to not disturb the king, after so many years this moment has come, he doesn't want to ruin it. Once His Majesty had saved him from death bed, this time he wanted to be that protector for himself and his human.

"One was the peak of magnificence. One is the definition of simplicity." 

Taehyung's eyes moved toward the pavilion again, the height of the tree was tall enough to let him see half of the southern territory.

"One was theoretical. One is empirical." 

The trunk of the tree was warm, providing shelter to the lonely figure. The leaves of the tree became less restless as if trying to listen to the barest words of the Alpha.

"One was a listener. One is a talker." 

There are thousands of differences the Alpha was aware of yet there should be none… There should be none. 

"One was naive. One is wise."

The Alpha inclined his head back, dark hair softly resting over the trunk. He closed his eyes, letting the hurt absorb him a little more…before he locked them again. 

"One was my love. One is my responsibility." 

And he didn't want any of it. Not now, not ever. He doesn't want anything, just wants to be alone, similar to the past years. What had even changed now, nothing but he… he is changed now. He is not the same, he can't communicate as before.

"One was a receiver. One is a provider." 

He doesn't want to differentiate anymore but his mind was racing with thoughts, thoughts that were stumbling inside him, wanting to unleash.

"One left me selflessly. One is holding onto me selfishly." 

Taehyung's elbow covered half of his face, not letting the moonlight witness his turmoil. 

"How? How could they have so much difference when…"

The Royal licked his lower lip, sending relief to his dry throat and lip. One of his feet came up and rested on the branch.

"But I want none. I never would when I know the outgrowth of it, I will not allow myself to be played again. I will not let any of them have any control over you and me, even if I had to ignore the Empress for my entire life, even if I had to become the torturer this time, I will become selfish enough to protect you and me." 

"Because it's never worth it. I know." Van understands it…believes in it.

Taehyung nodded and stroked his chin, wiping the sour tear, flicking the water away with his knuckles. 

"Something is there though… that is keeping me sane and its grasp over my anger is not letting me feel edgy." He exhaled loudly, not opening his eyes yet. 

"It's your own conscience, Your Majesty. We both have believed in it through the years and will keep doing it. I will be here with you only. The world can fall apart as I care, I respect my human more." Van was persistent in his decision.

The tug over Taehyung's lips happened again," But that doesn't mean you will suppress your thoughts, Van. You are an adamant part of me, if you ever feel-"

The sneer was venomous as well as filled with disbelief," Never." 

The Royal Alpha dropped the conversation when he heard the loud moo's of the cattle from afar. He stood up on the branch, feet confident while walking at the stable edge. 

"Time to meet our new friends. Be generous." The Alpha warned before directly jumping on the ground. 

He can sense the loud grumbling of the wolf, "As long as they won't flick me with their tails, I'll behave." 

"It's their way of communication besides the mooing," the Royal Alpha tried to explain while walking to the lake. 

"That I won't tolerate."  

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Jungkook woke up when he heard the hustling and bustling outside of the pavilion. Rubbing away the sleepiness from his face, he looked out of the little window, the sun was up. Cattle must have arrived because he couldn't see any soldiers, only a few ladies scrubbing the clothes near the lake.

After cleaning the bed a little, Jungkook got ready for the day. He changed his clothes into another pair of black pants and a t-shirt. Not forgetting the scarf behind, he left the pavilion to start the new hard-working day. 

He tied the scarf loosely around his neck, half of his jaw emerged into it but his beautiful smile was visible to all. 

"Good Morning, Your Empress." Some of the soldiers were taking out the many types of spades from the store room. Jungkook acknowledged their greeting with a nod before taking a spade in his hand, inspecting the edges carefully.

"Your Empress, when would the manure come? His Majesty had reached up to one-fourth of the land, along with the soldiers. We need to spread the manure before their second round begins." One soldier asked.

Jungkook looked towards the field, the dry soil was spreading everywhere, covering the air, making it hard for him to recognize the people.

"His Majesty had talked with the neighbour pack and they had agreed to provide us a sufficient amount of manure. They hadn't mentioned any specific time but before their arrival let's sharpen these spades so we will be all prepared for them." Jungkook took out the scrape stone and started rubbing the edge of the spade.

The soldiers followed after their Luna and chatted away about the strategy they were going to take so that they could reach the Alpha while spreading the manure on the field evenly. 

It was closer to noon when all of them were done with the spades and finally the manure arrived. There were a bunch of oxen, rolling down large carts filled with manure all by their humps. 

Each cart was balanced by a member of the neighbour pack, betas and omegas, some Alphas. The leader of them raised his hand in the air and the big line of cattle stopped in their hooves. 

He stepped down and bowed on his knees," Your Empress, please accept the bow of Zedvic pack." 

"Please stand up. I'm thankful to you all that the pack accepted our short request." Jungkook said to the Alpha. 

"It's our utter pleasure that we were able to help our King by any means. Explain to us the strategy, Your Empress, His Majesty said that we need to work by your command." The Alpha was looking down while talking to Luna. 

"It's a huge relief that the cattle arrive in a disciplined line, it will help us more. Please do not unload the manure in one place, let them come inside the field one by one and a few soldiers will guide your members to the places where the manure will be unloaded. Rest of us will spread it across the field with spades and shovels." The Empress explained to the pack alpha while the soldiers were standing beside him.

"After unloading, cattle along with the members may join the Royal Highness towards the north part of the lake. The Royal highness is preparing their food and cattle can rest there before departing back to the pack." The members bowed to the Empress before the alpha sat back on the cart shelf and followed the direction of the soldiers.

The ladies also finished washing their clothes and joined the soldiers in the field, a few soldiers were indicating the equidistant places and helping the cart drivers in unloading while Jungkook with other soldiers used the shovels to spread it across the area before moving to the next one.

Noon turned into evening, cattle came and went, unloading the manure on the field and going to the rest area. However, the members of the Zedvic pack returned and requested Jungkook to accept their help. 

Jungkook accepted their help wholeheartedly. With an estimate, he can say that the Royal Alpha has reached the third by fourth part of the land and they are still in the middle. So more hands will bring their activity more movement.

Their motion and action both increased as they were reaching more close to the ploughing soldiers. Jungkook hadn't seen his Alpha since the night and the possibility of seeing him again surpassed his every tiring muscle. 

In between their little talks with the soldiers and ladies, he didn't realise when the sun dipped down. Jungkook stopped his shovelling and walked ahead of everyone. His eyes were squinting in focus and a big smile occurred on his lips when he spotted his Alpha.

However, his smile dimmed and his lips fell apart in amazement after noticing the Alpha in a new form. The Royal Alpha was controlling a pair of an ox, a big wooden beam was situated before their humps that was connected to a long plough shaft and a plough shoe. The tailpiece of the plough shoe was made Due to the pointy structure of the shoe, the plough digs into the soil as the ox moves along with it. But it wasn't that captured the undivided attention of Luna.

The Royal Alpha has a nice grip over the reins of the oxen, he was… God forbid… standing on the joint wooden stand between the plough shaft and the plough shoe. It helps the plough shoe to dig deeper Jungkook knows but he didn't know what the Alpha standing there…shirtless and looking extravagant meant?

His shirt was tied over the oxen's horn and the ox was holding his head high as if weighing the most prideful cloth on his horn. 

"We need to hurry, they are close to the boundary line." One of the soldiers shouted and Jungkook flinched back to the true moment. 

He went back to work as well but his focus got disturbed, his eyes moved back to the boundaries every once in a while and it was making his speed slow. He shook his head frantically, "focus, focus, we will meet him at the end."

He focused on his work earnestly. By the time they were about to reach the boundaries, the darkness was already spreading around them. The ploughing cattle were returning back to the lake along with a few soldiers. 

"I have never seen a body as marvellous as the Royal Alpha." 

The voice of the girl was not above a whisper but it made Jungkook's both ears spread up in attention. His head became lower, eyes focusing on the edge of the shovel.

"I have seen it for the first time too. See, see, his hand muscles are flexing over the reins." 

Jungkook stopped the shovelling, now just playing with it while gliding it into the soil. 

"Tsk. You are still seeing the hands? Look at Alpha's arms!"

"And my eyes are just stuck at the back muscles, the shoulders are too wide to be real."

The Royal Luna was hearing every word. He was still on the ground, trying to comprehend the feeling his chest was combusting into. Why? Everyone admires Royal Alpha, what is there to be upset about? Instead, it's a good thing.

But why his insides is screaming at him that this admiration will not be delivered in a healthy way?

He controlled his anxious eyes and raging breath, he has never felt like this before. He was trying to remember every kind of rational thought, the different ways just to distract his mind from the conversation happening behind his back.

"Let's go and greet the Alpha in person. We will be able to admire him closely." 

"Yes, Yes and I can bet hearing Alpha's voice my life will become a fairytale."

"Aren't you afraid? What if we embarrass ourselves." 

There is no chance that they are Eclipsers. This is the only thought that's humbling inside Jungkook's brain in a loop. To ensure his doubt, he tilted his head to the left and he was right.

These three girls belong to the Zedvic pack, he can witness their excitement through their hopping toes. The group of girls was still debating if they should approach the Alpha or not.

Jungkook looked to his right, eyes searching for his Alpha. He found him scrunching down over the pair of oxen, maybe cleaning their hooves from excess mud. 

Before any of the girls took a step toward the Alpha, Jungkook stood straight in his posture and threw the shovel on the ground. The sound was loud enough to gain attention around him and successfully the girls looked at him too.

The gaze Jungkook awarded them with, wasn't polite at all. 

With a stern face, he turned around and walk to the cart that holds the drinking water pots for the workers. He picked up the smaller pot and took the path that leads to the Royal Alpha.

The Royal Alpha's nose twitched and with a small sniff, he noticed the sour scent of his mate. This felt new to him, the usual sweetness of pine hidden beneath the astringent scent of rosemary.

He looked back and saw the omega coming towards him, his usual smile was missing as well. Taehyung however ignored the fact and patted the back of the oxen. The oxen started walking back while the Royal Alpha keep standing I'm his position.

Taehyung didn't think that the first words that will fall out of his lips will be, "What happened?" 

Jungkook looked up, shoulders slumping in a soft manner. The omega shook his head, lips falling right into a small smile," Water?"

The Royal Alpha took the pot and washed his face first. His entire body was covered in dirt, sticking to his skin due to the continuous precipitation of sweat.

Taehyung gargled two times before drinking the water. He can still feel the dust in between his teeth, he gargled once again and then placed the pot on the ground.

Jungkook's mind was still occupied enough but when his Alpha didn't stand up from his position for a while, he decided to intervene.

He kneeled down beside the Alpha," What happened? Alpha?"

The Alpha's one eye was squeezed shut, the corner of his lips lifting in an irritating pain," Something went inside my eye."

The gasp sounded adorable as Jungkook titled his head upto the eye level of his mate," Let me see." 

Jungkook was about to touch Taehyung's jaw when the Royal Alpha raised his hand, stopping Jungkook in the middle," It's okay. I will manage." 

But Jungkook was restless now, his ears could still pick up the giggles of girls behind him. He felt helpless with the situation," Let me see please, your hands are dirty and you can't touch your eyes with them." 

Jungkook tried to reason but the Alpha was stubborn. His scent becomes sourer but Jungkook controlled his mannerisms against the Alpha.

Taehyung hissed and touched his eye with the back of his wrist. But similar to the entire body, the wrist was covered with dirt too and it made the stinging more painful.

Instead of the Alpha, Jungkook hissed this time and cupped the Alpha's face softly," Remove your wrist, Please Alpha let me see." 

The helplessness in his voice made Taehyung remove his wrist against his eye. Jungkook rubbed his cold thumb under the eyes, his own eyes holding heart melting concern for his mate.

Taehyung was watching Jungkook with his one open eye, the omega was focused on his eyes and he watched as the cold hands left his cheeks for a moment.

Jungkook grabbed the corner of his t-shirt, jerking it off a little to clean it from dust and put it inside his mouth. 

"No, don't!" Taehyung said.

But the material of the t-shirt was already stretched up to his mouth, making the front part of his stomach and back bare to everyone. The command didn't stop Jungkook though, he blew his warm breath into the cloth and when it becomes enough warm, he moved closer to Taehyung. 

He brought the warm part of the cloth away from his mouth and dabbed it directly on Taehyung's eyes. It made the material of the shirt stretch more and this time it got stretched up to his ribs, leaving a wide expanse of the waist all naked. 

Jungkook inhaled slowly when big palms covered his back and with a forceful tug, his torso collided right with Taehyung's bare chest. 

"It's not appropriate. Everyone is watching you." The Royal Alpha's voice was stern but not loud.

Jungkook took the edge of the cloth again into his mouth and howled his cheeks to blow again. His wide eyes were staring into Taehyung's open eye. 

The omega took the cloth out and kept it again on the Alpha's eye, dabbing it slowly," Not my priority." 

The grip of the palms tightened across his waist and Jungkook's hand trembled over the Alpha's face. He could feel how the Alpha's fingers were rubbing the dirt at the visible path of his spine. He gulped thickly when the aching eye finally opened, a little red than the other.

"What's bothering you?" Taehyung can easily read it by the touch but somehow he wanted to know it from the omega.

"Not your priority." 

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