"Jungkook? Are you even listening to me?" Jimin waved his tiny hand in front of the younger as Jungkook watched him with a fully confused face.

"Jimin?"

"Yea, do I look like someone else?"

The blond rolled his eyes as he took his seat opposite of the raven head as Jimin pushed the used plate aside. He didn't wait for Jungkook to offer him the pancakes as Jimin poured a whole load of maple syrup on top of the remaining pancakes and eat it with his hands.

"Ew gross." Jungkook scrunched his nose as he watched Jimin devouring the pancakes scrumptiously.

"I dwont cawe." Jimin said with a mouthful as he continued his breakfast while Jungkook chuckled it off, started to clean the table while the blond stayed unbothered.

"Where were you last night?" Jungkook was running the dishes under the tap water as he turned back to question the older who was almost done inhaling his breakfast.

"At a friend's." Jimin replied nonchalantly as he washed his throat down with a glass of water he found on the table.

Jungkook finished the dishes as he wiped his hands on the kitchen cloth which was hanging over his right shoulder. "But you don't have any friends over here in NYC whom you can stay over with though. Tell me Park, is it a date?" Jungkook wiggled his eyes playfully at the blond who puked his water out from his mouth.

"What the fuck Kook?"

"Tell me. I won't judge. NYC is known for its heat and flair anyway."

"It wasn't a date. I was out with someone and had a drinking night. I didn't wanna come back drunk or walk on the street all alone so my friend offered me to stay over. Simple. End of the story." Jimin replied as honestly as he could without turning any other shade than his original skin colour.

"Whatever you say Park." Jungkook saluted his close friend and asked him to clean up after himself before retrieving back to his bedroom.

The day has just started but the raven head was ready to swamp himself with all the work he had pending apart from the VANTE project. Jungkook knows that if he were to spend his time to produce an absolute best for Taehyung's expansion then he has to ensure his managerial work back in Sydney and Seoul is not affected at all.

After all, Jungkook is still their Director in charge and he can't afford to slack his time while he leads the project.

"Are you seriously gonna work right now Jungkook?" Jimin barged into the younger's room and deadpanned the raven head who was already scrolling through his emails.

"Yea."

"For God sake Jungkook, it's a Sunday!"

"So? Work is work Jimin."

"Whatever, I'm gonna take a nap and I will be out in a couple of hours. Don't wait up."

Jungkook raised his hand over his head and showed a thumbs up hoping Jimin would see it as he heard the footsteps growing distance.

"Nice Gucci shirt, by the way, didn't know you're someone who is into Gucci. Perhaps you want to drop it in the basket than sprawl it on the floor."

Shit! That's not mine. I never used Gucci.

Jungkook's soul elevated to heaven for a split second and reattached to his body when he notices Jimin's comment on the shirt. It was Taehyung's. The silver head was wearing a Gucci shirt as his casual outfit when he visited the apartment. Jungkook must have forgotten to clean up thoroughly leaving behind his shameful evidence.

The raven head shakily turned his head back and sighed in relief when he notices Jimin was already out of his room.

"Oh thank God!"

Jungkook ran as quickly as he could towards the shirt Jimin threw on the bed and take it to the laundry basket. The raven head attempted to bury Taehyung's shirt deep beneath his laundry hoping it erased all the traces of the older and their activity last night.

For a split second, the raven head stood in a haze. When Jimin walked in earlier, Jungkook didn't have the time to react for he didn't want his friend to comment on the unusual happenings. The raven head didn't have any logical lies to present in front of Jimin if the blond demanded an explanation on why there was another dirty plate aside from Jungkook's own. For whom did the raven head prepared the stacks of pancakes and demolished more than half?

The younger let out a huge sigh as he walked back slowly to his table and had a staring contest with his laptop before shifting his focus back to his work. Whatever happened last night probably won't mean anything. It was a mere act of lust and nothing else. Jungkook was stupid to let his guard down and Taehyung was smart to take an advantage of that.

It was as clear as the day sky that Jungkook meant nothing to Taehyung and Taehyung meant nothing to Jungkook. If only both of them realize how incredibly false this statement is which kept running inside their confused brain.

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The next day came quicker than expected. Once Jungkook was sunk into his work, it was not until midnight the raven head managed to clear off his emails with the sound of his grumbling stomach. The younger whipped himself something quick and had his dinner alone while Jimin was late, for another night.

This morning, Jungkook woke up earlier than usual as he wanted to grab something hearty for his breakfast before hitting the office space at VANTE's. He ensured to drop the sleeping Jimin a note as Jungkook made his way to the local cafe to take away his breakfast meal.

"Morning young man."

The lady at the reception was accustomed to greeting his favourite young man since the day she met Jungkook.

"Morning dear, how is the start of your day today?"

"Pleasant. Now that I have greeted you, it became magnificent." The middle-aged lady chuckle in joy as Jungkook shyly nodded at her.

"I will head up then. Enjoy your day Madam." Jungkook politely nodded his head as he juggled the coffee and briefcase in his hand headed up to VANTE's office level.

Jungkook was almost an hour and a half early to VANTE's office as according to their planned schedule, today is the day for the team to meet with Taehyung and the rest of the managing board. Hoseok will be presenting the final vision on behalf of Gardler to the rest of the VANTE members and Jungkook needed to be by his side.

The younger walked into the meeting room he was assigned to and set up the screen with his laptop while he continued cramming in his works with about an hour to kill. Jungkook's eyes never left his screen until the need for him to step away to the loo.

"Why the bloody hell they even built the toilet so freaking far at the corner of the hall? Urgh!" Jungkook groaned as he was rushing to the toilet.

He was making a mental note to not design his future building in a very illogical floor plan as he exited the toilet towards the meeting room.

"Good morning Mr Jeon."

Jungkook jolted back from the open door when he came in view with the sparkling silver head in a red suit with a white undershirt. Damn. The younger cursed mentally when he saw how bloody attractive Taehyung looked in contrast of his silver hair and red suit with a scarf over his neck.

"Hello Mr Kim."

"Back to being formal I see. Well. You're early today." Taehyung stood up from his swivel chair with his hands in the pocket, each step he take screaming big dick energy.

"We have a meeting today. Hoseok requested me to be here. I suppose you're early yourself as well Mr Kim."

"This is my company, do I need a permission to clock in early in my office?" Taehyung scoffed as his hooded eyes scanned the younger with his tongue running through his lower lips. It genuinely looked like Taehyung was about to eat Jungkook alive.

"N-no. I will just stay aside and wait for the rest. If you need me for anything, just buzz me." Jungkook said when he notice Taehyung was not budging from his place nor was he saying anything else.

"Anything?"

"Work related matters Mr Kim."

"Tsk, for someone who begged me to don't stop the previous night, you're surely making yourself hard to get Jungkook. Such a bad boy."

"Mr Kim, whatever that happened means nothing and I-..."

"YOU FUCKING LIAR."

"Mr K-Kim!" Jungkook was pushed back the wall as he felt a burning grip on his throat suffocating his air flow. The raven head was physically panting for air and mentally panicking when he notice what is happening.

Taehyung is gripping his throat very tightly and it is harming Jungkook in more than one way. The younger was visibly suffocating as his face turned a bright red.

"Tell me that it means nothing once more and I will stranggle you to death Jungkook." Taehyung let go the grip in his hand as Jungkook fell to his knees, gasping for air.

"I said before and I will say again Jungkook. I, Kim Taehyung gets to decide who shall associate with me and whom shall I allow their presence to be with me. You of all people should know this and you certainly have no rights to say that the sex we had means nothing."

Jungkook was forcing his eyes to not shed any fucking tears as he was not ready to submit and appear weak in front of the silver head devil. Taehyung slowly kneeled on one knee as he continued to drill his fiery gaze onto the boy in front of him.

The older looked at Jungkook's dishevelled state as Taehyung gripped a fistful of the raven hair in his fingers and yanked it backwards. "The sex meant something alright? It meant that at the end of the day, you're just a whore for my dick and you mean nothing more than a mere fuck. You get that?"

Jungkook pressed his eyes closed and felt the old crack in his heart easily disintegrating with every single word by the older.

I am never enough. This was a negative mantra that didn't leave the raven head since the day he decided to walk away from Taehyung. 8 years passed but nothing changed.

"Now clean yourself up and be ready for the meeting bun. You have 20 minutes." Taehyung smirked and playfully aimed Jungkook's lips. The younger moved his face to the side with clenched jaw making Taehyung's kiss to land at the corner of his mouth, fingers on his head getting tight.

"Such a rebel. I love it."

Taehyung chuckled like a psycho and he stood up to leave. Jungkook remained on the ground, eyes on the floor as he listened to the heels of Tae's shoes click against the floor. A few proper and calm breathing later, Jungkook took another visit to the toilet to make himself decent.

It was nothing new to the younger in facing the dominant side of the older. Jungkook had the slightest hope that after the sex they had together, Taehyung would at least spare him a little gentleness which was the most foolish expectation that Jungkook had aside from believing that Taehyung loved him, 8 years ago.

"I'm not a fucking child and I am not weak. I will not be defeated again Taehyung. I will not."

Jungkook assured himself with it over and over as the room started to be filled with a few employees from VANTE making Hoseok and Jimin the fourth and fifth person to arrive before the start of the presentation.

What irked the younger most was how Taehyung behaved like a literal angel in front of the rest, especially earning a few praises from Yoongi for being on time while Jungkook continued his best to pull a fake facade making everything look good.

What the younger failed to notice is how his every single move are being registered like a cashier on Taehyung's mind as the older grow frustrated with Jungkook's 'unbothered' antic after shaming him earlier. Taehyung took it as a mission to crack the raven head into pieces and he vows to fulfil it soon.

Why is he being so nasty towards Jungkook? That's just how the young tycoon of VANTE for you.

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Okay.
We all love a dominant Tae but
not a bully Tae right?
Poor JK! I hate my brain but I promise, I won't disappoint. If you've read through my other stories then you will know I always come around.
(Good or bad? We shall see).