Author's P.O.V:-

At The Villa...

Hoseok is busy admiring Taehyung while the younger is busy admiring the sea he is seeing for the first time in his life.

Yes, he did see the sea many times in television ads or so but never for real, he always wanted to see the sea but he couldn't ask his blind mother.

And asking his aunt or uncle is a no, no! He was always used to be jealous of the kids around him when they went to beaches all the time with their parents & used to brag about it with him.

Even when he was in school he doesn't have money to go on the tour the school has arranged and he couldn't tell Jimin that he won't be going cause he doesn't have money so he lied that he has to take care of his mother.

It's partly the truth cause Taehyung had to take care of his blind mother from childhood. He can't leave his mother in the care of his aunt as he knows she will starve his mother to death if he isn't around.

Namjoon, his hyung on the other hand, had to study & work part-time to take care of them. So, he never disturbed his Hyung who was working hard even if he was just 2 years elder than him.

Later, his Hyung disappeared and all the burden has fallen on him, so he had to stop his studies to take care of his mother, do the house chores, and make money doing part-time jobs.

Along with doing a part-time job as a music teacher, he also used to work as a bartender at night club which paid high but had to leave that job as the boss there tried to make him an escort for rich people.

Which he absolutely doesn't like & left the job making his aunt angry at that time for bringing less money to the home, he was beaten badly until Yoongi who heard his screams came to rescue him.

But now everything seems like a dream to him, he is now in the arms of his husband watching the sea that he wanted to see since childhood.

He looks at Hoseok who is looking at him from the start reading all his expressions, "Thank you."

Saying that he gives a quick peck on Hoseok's cheek & shyly buries his face on his shoulder closing his eyes with red cheeks making the elder's eyes go widen at the sudden action.

Hoseok then smiles seeing the younger's cute actions, "Tae, look at me" he asks gently.

He shakes his head still hiding on Hoseok's shoulder. The elder takes him to the railing of the balcony & makes him sit on that.

"Ngh!" Taehyung lightly winces as his butt comes in contact with the hard railing.

The younger looks up pouting with slight glossy eyes, "It's hurting..." he extends his arms to pick him which makes Hoseok go uwu.

He places his hands on the younger's butt and lifts him, he crosses his legs tightly around the waist of the Hoseok.

"Now, is it still hurting?" Hoseok whisper-asks in the younger's ear making him blush red, he shakes his head no shyly.

Hoseok grins seeing the younger blush, he then pushes him to the pillar beside the railing to support Taehyung's back.

Taehyung looks up perplexed, Hoseok looks at the younger's lips & leans closer. He leans in so close as his hot breath is fanning the other's nose making him have a tingling sensation in the gut.

The younger blinks his eyes continuously before closing his eyes as he sees the elder is aiming at his lips.

Hoseok smiles seeing him close his eyes tightly and his cupid's bow-shaped lips quiver as the distance is getting closer between them.

His lips brush the younger's making him shut his closed eyes tightly, and his slender fingers clutch onto the elder's shoulders firmly.

The light touch sent shivers to Taehyung making him tremble, when the elder doesn't see any resistance from him, he slowly sucked the lower lip ever so softly making the younger knot his fists on Hoseok's shirt tightly.

Then Hoseok goes to the upper lip sucking it softly repeating the act several times making Taehyung release a soft moan from his mouth unknowingly as the younger is in ecstasy receiving a gentle love for the first time.

That small sound of the younger made something twitch inside Hoseok as he starts sucking the lips more passionately than before, leaving the younger breathless.

Taehyung tries to follow Hoseok but couldn't as he helplessly clutched his fingers onto the elder's hair trying to breathe.

Seeing that Taehyung is breathless, Hoseok leaves the lips unwillingly with a light groan.

"You have to breathe, pabo" Hoseok comments brushing the younger's lower lip with his left thumb while supporting him with his left hand.

"Y-you *huff* I-I...*huff* M-Mr. *huff* H-Hades *huff*" Taehyung tries to speak while gasping but to no avail.

Hoseok grins seeing the younger struggling to speak, "Shh, calm down" he hushes the younger giving him a light peck.

Taehyung gets tomato red and hugs him tightly burying his face. He chuckles at the younger's action.

"Look at me, Tae! Why are you hiding from me, huh?" He asks smiling.

"N-No" Taehyung answers burying himself more.

"If I leave you like this you would dig a hole in my shoulders and bury yourself in it, won't you?" Hoseok asks laughing softly.

"Uhoo" Taehyung disagrees.

"Won't you look at me?" He asks again & the younger shakes his head in no.

"Alright," saying that with an evil snicker he kisses the exposed neck of the younger shocking him.

The elder didn't stop at that he bites the skin red and then licks it in the last leaving a love bite on Taehyung's milky nape.

Taehyung winces when he is bitten, then gets surprised when he feels the licks on his nape, his whole body shivers as he lets a moan again unknowingly.

He is surprised listening to himself, the sound was so sensual, "Y-you you...Shameless!" Taehyung complains as he lifts his head looking at Hoseok more like glaring at him with a slightly pouty lip as he hits on Hoseok's shoulder with his little paws.

"Yes, I am!" He responds grinning then gives a kiss on Taehyung's forehead, on the nose, then goes to his eyes, cheeks, chin...

"S-stop kissing m-me" Taehyung struggles to say.

"Why, don't you like it when I kiss you?" He asks genuinely to know how the younger feels, if he is uncomfortable then he is not gonna go any further with him.

Hoseok isn't the type to force himself on anyone just cause he is rich or he is stronger than the others, he grew up in poor then worked hard to this day earning the fame & money he has now.

He knows the struggles of life, he knows how cruel the world works cause he experienced them but still stayed strong till now. He doesn't despise the poor he just doesn't like the ones who use the wrong ways to come out of poverty they are in.

He hates gold diggers to the core cause he thinks those people just to solve their own problems bring down other people, betray them & finally destroy them.

Their greediness has no bounds which can lead to the destruction of a happy family. As a prosecutor, he saw many such cases & he never failed to put them behind bars.

He grew more sensitive toward gold diggers after he took responsibility for Jimin. Cause his brother is gullible & has a kind heart which was taken advantage of, all the time.

And so his hatred towards money-grubbers increased day-by-day making him suspect each & everyone around Jimin.

That's where Taehyung is caught between. As Hoseok became sensitive as soon as he knew Taehyung is from a poor family, he believed that the younger must be also one of those people.

But everything changed on that moonless night something in Hoseok made him think that Taehyung isn't like that, he wanted to believe that feeling of his as the younger never behaved greedily for money.

And also there is another reason Hoseok wants to believe that the younger is innocent that is, he is slowly getting addicted to Taehyung dangerously & he doesn't want to share his life with a money-grubber.

>>>Even if he is a gold digger...maybe I will change him & his ways as he is my husband now...

That's what Hoseok is thinking all the time but every time he sees the younger's innocent eyes he really hopes that he is wrong about him. He is wrong that the younger is greedy for money, his heart wants to believe his gut feeling but yet his brain is giving him some warning signs as it doesn't want to lose its rationality blinded by...love?

"It's...n-not like t-that...I-I like it... that's the p-problem" Taehyung mumbles the last part closing his face with his hands.

But Hoseok hears it all, he frowns when hears little sniffles, "Why, what happened, Tae?"

Hoseok asks looking concerned as the younger's sniffles grow into sobs.

"D-Don't *hic* do this *hic* to m-me...p-please *hic*" Taehyung talks in between his sobs trying to wipe his tears but they aren't stopping.

Hoseok then goes & sits on the couch with Taehyung sitting on his lap, "Hush, stop crying tell me what's bothering you, am I making you uncomfortable? But you said you like it? Then what's the problem?"

Hoseok asks softly wiping the tears off the younger and holding his face in his palms. Taehyung looks at the elder & starts crying more.

Hoseok gets befuddled seeing the younger cry out of nowhere and the worst part is he doesn't know why is he crying like this.

"Tell me, Tae... what's the problem? Are you hurt somewhere else? What's going on?" Hoseok asks again getting anxious.

Taehyung immediately hugs Hoseok tightly while crying & says between his sobs, "Mr. H-Hades...*hic*..."

"Hmm" Hoseok hums patting the younger's back signaling him to continue talking.

"T-the way you are t-treating me *hic* now, *hic* gently...as if *hic* y-you l-love *hic* m-me...I like it *hic* b-but what if you *hic* after I get used to this *hic* if you leave me *hic* what would I do? Like last time you would be nice to me *hic* then accuse me of being a slut making my heartbreak *hic* so don't treat me *hic* nicely. I will be broken, *hic* if it's a dream where you are this nice to me *hic* I don't want it to end *hic* but I know even in the dream *hic* you would leave me *hic*... so, please don't do this to me *hic* p-please..."

Taehyung speaks his mind. Hoseok looks shocked, hearing the younger.

To a boy like Taehyung where every day he had to work hard to survive & bring money to buy his mother's medicine, a slight affection means everything, although his mother, Yoongi, IU, and Jimin loves him, it's not the same... as his heart is lonely, it craved for love and now that he is getting it from Hoseok.

He is scared...scared to feel it, scared that he will get used to it, it will be fine as long as he is away from it but once he gets the taste of love, if it disappears suddenly then the pain will be unimaginable and Taehyung can't bear it.

>>> I didn't know the words I spat in anger last time affected him this much...(A/N: Refers to the last time Hoseok scolded him in the car).

>>>Now, I know the reason for his blank expression back then...

>>>Tae is feeling so insecure that he dares not accept the gentleness from me in fear that after accepting it, I will shatter it again...so he doesn't want me to treat him nicely...

>>>I know how he is feeling right now. I was in his shoes years back when there was no one beside me, I dare not accept kindness from anyone cause nothing is free, if it is then the final result will only be pain...

>>>But if he is reacting like this then there is only one reason...

"Tae, do you like me?" Hoseok questions making the younger's eyes widen, he clutches Hoseok's shirt tightly, "Tae, tell me"

Taehyung shakes his head in no, the younger wants to hide but couldn't do it as he is now sitting on Hoseok's lap hugging him.

"Won't you answer me?"

Taehyung shakes his head again.

"Alright, I won't force you."

Taehyung releases a sigh of relief after hearing that...

The next day...

At Jeon's mansion...

Taehyung is with Krystal now playing with her, "Oppa what's the red mark on your nape?" Krystal questions innocently.

Taehyung touches his nape & remembers how Hoseok kissed & bite him yesterday, he gets flustered as all the memories from yesterday rush through his mind.

"Nothing, it was a mosquito"

>>>A big shameless mosquito at that!

"Oh, let's put some cream on it, it looks painfully red, take a mosquito repellent while you go home, Oppa! How dare that stupid mosquito bite you so hard?" Krystal says.

>>>It really was a stupid mosquito but I don't think I can use mosquito repellent on Mr.Hades, he will repel me if I do that!

Taehyung & Krystal are in a deep talk that they didn't realize Hoseok arrived beside them looking shocked seeing the younger there.

"You! What are you doing here?" Hoseok questions as soon the younger hears it he turns to see an angry Hoseok.

"Hoseok Oppa! Taetae Oppa is my new caretaker, do you know him?" Krystal asks.

"Caretaker, huh?" Hoseok asks, smirking but Taehyung knows that the elder is pissed off.

"I...I" Taehyung couldn't form any words.

"Krystal, I want to talk with your caretaker for a moment, please wait here" saying that Hoseok grabs Taehyung's wrist & starts dragging him along without hearing Krystal's reply.

"Mr. H-Hades, listen to me-" Taehyung tries to speak but then is cut off when Hoseok yells, "Shut the hell up!"

Taehyung flinches, his whole body trembles seeing how mad Hoseok is looking at him, he takes him to an empty room far from all the rooms, smashes him to the wall after locking the door behind him.

"What are you doing here, Tae?" Hoseok asks in his dark deep voice.

"I...I-I work here..." Taehyung answers his voice shaking.

"Work? Didn't you say that you work somewhere else in this area when I asked you yesterday? So, that was a lie...how did you get here? Oh, I get it now, you said you met with Jimin, right? Did he bring you here? So, that you can meet each other anytime you want without me knowing?"

"N-No...it's not like that...Mr.Hades... please l-listen to m-me" Taehyung pleads.

"Then tell me dammit! Just yesterday I was thinking maybe I was wrong to think that you are a gold digger but now seeing you here maybe I was right all along, why did you approach my uncle? Do you want to coax money from him? Or else from Jimin?"

"N-No..."

"Then, what? You proved me right, didn't you? You are just a damn gold-digging slut who will do anything & everything for money, ain't you?"

"No...no!" Taehyung starts sobbing hearing Hoseok accuse him.

"Then? Why did you lie to me? Why didn't you tell me you are working in my uncle's home yesterday? You were with me the whole evening, right?" Hoseok asks grabbing Taehyung's jaw.

"I *hic* wanted *hic* t-to..." Taehyung tries to speak.

"Then why didn't you say, dammit! Why did you lie to me after all that we did & talked, yesterday? I was even going to tear off that contract & make you my husband for real" Hoseok says shocking the younger.

"You were going *hic* to make me your *hic* husband for real?" Taehyung asks still crying.

"Yes, but not anymore, you are just a liar! You don't deserve it, you deserved to be sold to an old man & be treated like a toy for the rest of your life like your uncle wanted!" Hoseok spats in anger.

"N-No...I-I am sorry, M-Mr. Hades, I-I d-didn't mean to lie to y-you...*hic* I-I was just afraid that *hic* you'll hate me for getting near y-your family *hic*"

"I hate it more because you lied to me, Kim Taehyung!"

>>>Why is he calling me by full name?

"Mr.Hades, please *hic* I am really sorry I never wanted to *hic* lie to you ...I just forgot to mention it yesterday *hic* believe me."

"You forgot? *scoffs* then forget everything we had till now...you breached the contract so be ready for the consequences, Kim Taehyung!" Hoseok speaks in rage tightly gripping the younger's jaw.

Taehyung remembers the contract, "No, you can't do that, please Mr.Hades, there is no one to take care of my mother, please if she hears it she'll be heartbroken, please Mr.Hades" Taehyung pleads.

"You should've remembered that you have a mother to take care of before planning to make money in the wrong ways, your mother will be so ashamed of you, Taehyung! And I know she never wants a child like you who lives like a parasite on others," Hoseok spats.

"It is not like that ...Mr.Hades please believe me, *hic* I beg of you, please" Taehyung begs, falling on his knees holding Hoseok's legs.

"Stop your drama, I am not gonna fall for it anymore, Taehyung. You just wait for the police to take to you into custody," Hoseok speaks angrily pushing Taehyung & walking away.

Taehyung runs behind Hoseok to catch up to him but the elder is long gone in his car, "Why don't you believe me? Why won't anyone believe me? Why...*sobs* just why?"

Taehyung cries falling to his knees in the garden of Jeon's mansion...

"Mr.Hades *sobs* please don't leave me *sobs* I love you *hic* I am not a gold digger *hic* I am not a slut *hic* please believe me..."

Continued...

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(A/N:- That's all for today lovelies! Hope you enjoyed the chap!

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