•Chapter twenty•

Winter Moon festival.

Taehyung found a new way to distract himself from everything.

He started leaving his depressing room and began going out to do things he hasn't done before. He used to hate it when Yoongi used to force him try new things out, but it all reminded him of Yoongi now so he did it happily.

He went around and asked the servants with the things he can help them with.

Most of them just ignored him and went ahead to do their own work, but this one elder girl who radiated the same extroverted energy as Hoseok, let Taehyung tag along with her to bring water from wells and rivers and let him help her in gardening.

She was good company, but Taehyung chose to stay away from conversations because he didn't know who to trust and who not to. If he said something he shouldn't, he'd get into trouble.

Chohee, the girl, understood his hesitancy and talked only about what they were doing at the moment, explaining in detail about what kind of fishes visit the river and the kind of plants found in the royal garden.

Taehyung listened quietly, feeling oh, so warm when he heard that there were abundant gardenias growing in the garden.

God did he feel himself slowly lift away from the ground, topple over and fall head over heels for Jungkook.

It just started, and it was a lie to say that he doesn't like it.

He was used to feeling short-lived attraction and lust, but this was the first time he loved the personality of a person more than their looks or how good they could be in bed.

Jungkook and Taehyung didn't really spend long time with each other.

Taehyung didn't know why Jungkook wouldn't come and speak to him when they came across each other on the corridors. The alpha was still a pure angel to come to Taehyung in the nights and tuck his sleeping form--pretending to sleep--under the blankets before leaving.

He didn't think much about it.

Mira was doing a really great job at being a queen, like as if she was meant for the role.

That is all Taehyung knew about her. He didn't communicate or approach her. She would greet him with a warm hug a few times and leave right after, claiming to be busy.

All of them seemed to be busy.

At the moment, he was walking back to the palace, holding a bucket filled with water in his hands, the clothes he was wearing being wet and stuck to his body.

He walked past a group of young farmer alphas whose gaze lingered on him for longer, making him uncomfortable.

"Careful," Chohee warned, glaring at those alphas who looked away, bowing apologetically at Taehyung.

"What's going on?" Taehyung asks, suddenly feeling all warm. "Do you think I'm going on heat, noona? Is there a change in my scent?"

Chohee was slightly taken aback by the fact that he was asking her something, but she quickly forgot about it and paid attention to his question, "No, it's not because of heat. This is common during winter moon festival. I'm a beta so I don't suffer, but all the other ranks do suffer because of this."

"Yeah?" Taehyung frowned. "Why don't I know about this festival then?"

"It comes once in ten years. You were too young in the last festival, so you don't know about it."

Chohee thought about it carefully, remembering how all alphas go berserk, being forced to mate with their mates. She could see that Taehyung was interested in knowing more, so she continued speaking.

"It's not a very important thing. Winter is when the mating season starts every year, but after every ten years, the starting of the mating makes the alphas feel the urges much more stronger than they feel in their ruts."

"All the alphas?" Taehyung asked. Chohee was so glad that he was actually speaking to her.

"Every alpha will be affected. Stronger ones will be affected more than the weaker."

"The king?"

Chohee looked at him with a smile, shrugging her shoulders like the answer was obvious. "Highest in rank, stronger than the rest. It means he will be affected the most, easily make a omega pregnant too."

"What happens exactly?" Taehyung asks, trying to hide dejection. God, he hoped Jungkook wouldn't have sex with Mira again because there wouldn't be a chance of her not getting pregnant then.

Lord, he didn't want that to happen. He didn't want her to hold his Jungkook's pups.

It was unacceptable.

"There will be a celebration at night. A rather short one, just a one to offer prayers to the moon goddess. Who wants to attend it can attend it, but all alphas need to be there. The alphas' state would worsen at midnight, when the moon is the brightest. They will have to mate to push the pain away or would have to go through pure torture."

"Then what happens if they mate an unmated person who isn't their mate?" Taehyung asks, trying not to let her know who these questions are related to.

"Depends whether they're sane enough to not knot them."

Taehyung nods, letting the conversation end but continued to think deeply about. What would happen if Jungkook did just give in the all these urges and did it with Mira?

He sighed. There was just nothing he could do in this.

To make all his miseries less, he had decided to think of the matters only under his control as there was nothing he could do but get depressed by thinking about any other matters.

He saw Jungkook near the entrance, talking to a few people. He sighed when the alpha looked away before their eyes could properly.

Taehyung knew that he was trying to stay away from him during the festival.

So... it will be Mira who he would be with then?

Why did I even expect anything else?

Chohee tapped his shoulder and asked him why he was so lost. When he just shook his head at her, she handed him a watering can and asked him to water the plants on the left side of the garden.

He did as told, admiring the plants silently as they sway with the wind.

He touched the white petals of the beautiful flowers and smiled slightly.

"Taehyung?" he turned around, coming face to face with an alpha who looked slightly familiar. "Do you remember me? I helped you out during one of your heats..."

"I'm sure I would've thanked you if you've helped me with my heat, so there is no reason for you to come speak to me again," Taehyung said, spotting Jungkook coming closer to them and trying not to feel glee at how Jungkook got affected just because of another alpha being near him.

If not anything else, at least Jungkook didn't want another alpha to misuse him during the festival and was attempting to protect. He loved this feeling of being wanted.

The alpha cleared his throat, telling Taehyung what he wanted even though he could sense the king nearby. "If you could help me out today night..."

"He won't," Jungkook replied, standing before Taehyung and pushing him behind his back, shielding him. He didn't want to be rude to the boy so he just smiled and shook his head denyingly.

Taehyung was proud.

"I'm sorry if I said something wrong, your majesty, I just wanted him because he does it best--"

"Fuck off," Taehyung growled. I'm trying to have a good impression on Jungkook, and this pest just comes out of nowhere to spoil it all. "You did it because you wanted to. I didn't say I'd help you back in return for your help."

The alpha sighed, nodding, taking the rejection well as he just leaves. Jungkook snapped his head around, ducking his head. "I'm sorry. I s-shouldn't have..."

"What?" Taehyung frowns. "Why are you sorry?"

"I have no right to do this at all. You can be with whoever you want to... I-I was worried about the bond and its effects," Jungkook said in a genuinely sorry tone. He pressed his lips together, mad at himself for stepping in and acting possessive.

The stupid fluctuations in his hormones due to the festival was making him do things like this.

He just couldn't stand the disgust he felt on himself for being possessive and pushing that man away from Taehyung when he had slept with Mira too. God, his eyes had been searching around for Taehyung every second since the morning.

But he wasn't doing any justice to Taehyung by being like this.

It wasn't fair. It should've been either both stuck in the bond or none.

Taehyung wanted to him ask him if he wouldn't feel anything if the bond wasn't a problem, but Jungkook spoke before he could, "Don't think about what I just did, Tae. Just g-go ahead and do as you wish. But please... take care of yourself."

Jungkook left the next second. Taehyung wondered what would happen that night.

*-*-*-*

The king and queen were seated on their thrones, a huge number of people, mostly alphas, standing on the yard before them. They were out in the open, waiting to begin the prayer which would start midnight.

The alphas were clearly restless, squirming and looking around and checking out every omega there. The omegas did have an effect of the winter moon on them but none showed as strong reaction as the alphas.

Jungkook was losing his mind too, looking around and searching just for Taehyung. He felt restless on not having him near.

He didn't even look at Mira once,and the girl did feel disappointed that his eyes weren't searching for her.

Somehow, Mira wasn't telling him to look at her and wasn't even asking him who he's looking for.

She was going to keep quiet and let what's happening to happen just because it's how it should be according to her plan. She had secretly wished that Jungkook spent the night with her but it was better if he did it with Taehyung because only then can things proceed.

The prayer soon began too, right after it was midnight. The alphas had already started being the way they are supposed to be during this night, growling, needy, needing to knot.

Jungkook kept as calm as he could, but he couldn't help it much because it was how it is supposed to be. It wasn't about his control now but the strong effect of the sweet scent in the air. His eyes raised, finally spotting Taehyung near the gates, surrounded by alphas while having a disinterested look as he shook his head at all those alphas.

He growled, eyes flashing red. Mira held his elbow. "Keep calm. You need to order them to behave, in your alpha tone, and not force themselves on anyone tonight. You can leave after that."

Jungkook was barely breathing normally now. He was fuming as he was angry on the alphas surrounding his omega even though none of them were doing anything to him.

He stood up to catch their attention after the prayers had ended. He flashed his deep red eyes at Taehyung who shuddered, shivering, and awaited for what is going to happen, back straightening instantly, getting more alert.

It was now that Taehyung will see who Jungkook chooses in his instincts, him or Mira. He was here just for that.

"No one here is allowed to take advantage of anyone or their state. The alphas will only mate their mates or take permission from their omegas or betas before doing anything to them."

His growl and the alpha voice made the people freeze, not letting them proceed to just do as they wish.

They got his message though. None would dare to go against the order.

Jungkook didn't wait for a while more as he climbed down the stairs of the platform. He pushed aside a few people who were coming in his way, not a king now but an extremely dominant alpha who didn't wish anything more than wanting to be with the person he considers his mate.

Youngmi held his elbow and tried to stop him from proceeding any further only to yelp when he growled, pulling his hand away from her hold. "Son! Your mate is not there--"

"Get away," Jungkook, under his alpha instincts, couldn't stand anyone coming in his way of going to his mate. "Don't touch me."

His growl made Youngmi freeze. She snapped her head around to see where Mira was and frowned when she saw no one on the platform.

She gagged as she sees all the young werewolves just being all over each other even before they had already gone off to their houses and were confined within their rooms.

All she could hear was growls and moans, but before she could rush away from the place, she saw Mira exiting the yard with another male.

Another male... A alpha.

She frowned. She forced herself to not think much, not stopping her son who threw all the males around Taehyung to the floor and went to press himself completely against the omega who shrunk in his hold.

Jungkook sniffed his head, neck and picked him up by wrapped his strong arms around him to take in the smell of his chest, the omega blushing madly.

It wasn't right to do this in the open. The alphas had lost their mind, but the omegas were still normal and could see and understand the things going on.

"Your alpha is here," Jungkook growled against his chest after confirming that he was the one who he considers his mate. He took another huge whiff of his scent. "My omega, your alpha is here."

Mine.

Taehyung bit his lower lip. God, he was unexplainably happy that he was Jungkook's omega and was the one Jungkook chose out of instincts without thinking about anything else.

Mira was not in his heart or mind.

The only one present there was Taehyung.

The omega moaned when Jungkook grown canines caressed his clothed chest. He couldn't help but whimper when Jungkook lips pressed against his right bud, not doing anything more than just pressing his lips there.

He yelped when Jungkook suddenly turned around, throwing him over his shoulders and taking him into the palace.

"I--I can walk--"

He shut his mouth when Jungkook growled and squeezed his hip by wrapping his arms around him tighter. He gave himself to Jungkook, enjoying to be in the mercy of the man.

Before entering Taehyung's room, Jungkook placed him on the ground, his bright deep red eyes looking captivating and genuine as he asked, "You need to say 'yes' first."

Taehyung chuckled, cupping the alpha's face. His sweet actions were only responded with a bruising hold on his waist by Jungkook whose eyes glittered at the sweet laugh of his.

"That's not how you ask for consent," Taehyung winced out because Jungkook's hold just got harsher and harsher, holding him more tightly as a sign of his growing affection. "You need to ask me if I need it or not."

"Say yes?" All Jungkook seemed to want was a yes at this point, and Taehyung was no fool to not consent to this when he wanted it so much.

Jungkook was looking deep into his soul, reading his heart and knowing that his omega needed it too, but he just needed confirmation.

Taehyung nodded. Before his mind could even comprehend anything, Jungkook had slammed open the door and pulled him inside, shitting the door close behind them.

In a second, his shirt was ripped off, leaving his upper half exposed to the alpha who sniffed and sniffed, taking in his smell. His sharp teeth--no canines protruding now--were caressing against his skin, and all he could do was moan and shudder.

He didn't feel guilty for giving himself to Jungkook even though he was married to someone else because he knew Jungkook didn't belong to her. He didn't love her. Marriage was there, but Jungkook did it by force.

Nothing mattered more than the fact that Jungkook was holding him tighter than anyone else ever could.

Nothing mattered more than the fact that Jungkook loved him.

Jungkook hugged him tighter and Taehyung's legs were dangling in air again after a moment as Jungkook had stuffed his head in his chest again.

"So good..." He mumbled. "My omega... My omega smells the best."

Taehyung blushed, throwing his head back when Jungkook nibbled at the skin between his chest. He continued on with his soft words and hard actions until both were desperate.

Taehyung was thrown on bed, having Jungkook hover over him. He looked much bigger and muscular than usual, muscles growing as the sleeves of the shirt tore.

Jungkook had a huge body already. Now it's bigger than that, and it aroused Taehyung so much.

Taehyung felt so damn excited at that. He moaned, arched his back, knowing that he appears not less than a delicate being to Jungkook whose growls grew more demanding and dominant.

With the huge body above him, Taehyung was left completely at his mercy. And Jungkook took complete control of him and his state.

"My pretty omega will let your alpha knot you, right?"

He was considerate to be asking this question at this point and not just pounding into him. He was all set for breaking Taehyung, the omega's pants were already ripped off, and Jungkook had been rubbing his huge dick, which also grew in size, against his awaiting hole.

Taehyung shivered. With every rub of the dick against his wet downsides, he felt something tingle in his stomach.

Every time Jungkook kissed his buds, neck, or his face, he felt butterflies in his tummy. He's never fucking felt that stupid, tickling feeling before.

"Y-yes!" Taehyung pleaded. "I will. I will. Please knot me."

Jungkook smirked, lifting the omega's slender legs and wrapping it around his waist, but still not giving it to him right away.

"Please-!" Taehyung cried, arching his back and moaning through gritted teeth as Jungkook just continued to run the huge and warm flesh against him.

"Beg," Jungkook said, holding his chin in a bruising hold to make him face, finding it a displeasure to not be able to see his face when he turned his face to a side.

Jungkook couldn't fucking keep his hips in a position and just wanted to fuck into this beautiful boy before him. He continued to jerk his hips, letting Taehyung's slick cover his member.

Just as Taehyung was about to let out pleads and begs, he shut him up by kissing him hard, shoving his tongue into his mouth.

Taehyung moaned, his voice being muffled against Jungkook who teased him more by breaking away only when he was fully breathless, not in a state to speak. Jungkook then said,"I didn't hear you beg."

Taehyung pushed his head to a side when Jungkook came down to kiss him again. Jungkook laughed, not slightly disappointed at how Taehyung found out his was of delaying things.

"Please, just do it! I want you..." His wish was fulfilled partially--Jungkook pushed the swollen tip of his dick inside him-- but soon pulled out and pleasure vanished before it could come.

"Your begs shouldn't stop, petal," Jungkook demanded. He finally stopped jerking his hips and took a moment to see Taehyung's messed up state, being nothing but beautiful.

"Please, alpha. Fill me up... I need you..." Taehyung let shameless begs, looking at Jungkook's eyes with a strange intensity.

It was unfamiliar. Last time they did it, there was only lust in them.

It wasn't just that emotion now.

"Please," Taehyung said again, concluding that Jungkook wasn't satisfied with his pleads yet.

The sudden urge to give what Taehyung wanted rose in the red eyed male, and he placed the tip on Taehyung's opening, forcing the thick flesh in and swallowing Taehyung's screams by connecting their lips again.

Taehyung screamed and screamed. That's all his helpless state could do.

Not only did Jungkook's body grow, his normally huge dick did too.

His walls would fucking tear just by how big it was.

He looked down to see a space between their chests but their lower halves connected. He just wanted to scream by seeing how he was taking in the huge and thick flesh.

"You like seeing us connected?" Jungkook asks huskily against his ears. "You like what you're seeing?"

Taehyung just nodded agressively, in no state to be answering the question.

His hips pressed down against the bed kept twitching, not able to take in everything at once.

But once he was calmer, the alpha lost himself and became the beast he was. He rammed into him, intervening their fingers and pinning his hands and legs down when they came closer to the screaming boy's body, providing resistance.

"Too much?" He growled, noticing the tears flowing down his omega's cheeks. "Is it too much, love?"

"Fuck!" That's all he got in response. It was up to him to decide whether it was a moan of pleasure or pain now.

To be on the safer side, Jungkook slowed down.

But Taehyung's scrutinizing eyes returned as soon as his pace faltered. They burnt him, threatened him.

Jungkook took Taehyung's lower lip between his teeth, nibbling on them. "You just like everything your alpha has to give, isn't it?"

"A-anything you give but not this. Move, I beg you!"

"Alright. Remember you asked for it."

Taehyung was back to screaming just after Jungkook's warning. God, his dick was so fucking huge that it filled him entirely, and not being prepped was making the pain more, but he loved all of it.

The best of all came when Jungkook grabbed his knees and pushed them apart, down to the either sides of his chest. Taehyung felt the tip grow thicker, and he jerked his hips, not wanting to resist but the pain making him do so.

"Shit!" Jungkook's hips twitched, face not slowing even when he felt himself grow slowly. "Fuck, Tae!"

Taehyung loved it and hated it at the same time. He let out a pained sob, hands shooting to Jungkook's hips to make him stop as he tried to push him away. He loved pain during sex, but not this pain he felt of being slowly being stretched more and more.

He thought Jungkook would just tear him into two by that dick of his.

But Jungkook only pushed in fully, not pulling out because that wasn't an option. If he did pull out, he would actually cause harm to the boy.

"Calm down," he growled, pinning Taehyung's wildly moving hands, which tried to push him away down ,above his head. "It'll only hurt more if you resist."

Taehyung shook his head, wailing. He looked down, seeing how Jungkook's body was pressed against his, locked in him. He let out the loudest scream of that night when his walls stretched more, for the final time as Jungkook finally settled in him. He squeezed the foreign flesh in him.

He still pushed his hips down onto the bed, trying to push Jungkook away.

"Calm the fuck down," came the warning from the man who bared his teeth dominantly. "Moving like this is not going to help you. Just listen to me and stay calm. The pain will fade."

Jungkook was guilty when take still sobbed. He kissed the tip of his round nose, the red cheeks and sending a flying kiss to his forehead because he couldn't push himself forward and hurt Taehyung more.

It took a proper ten minutes for the boy to calm down, recieving just enough attention from the alpha all the while.

"There," Jungkook smiled. "You're alright now."

Taehyung sniffled, pouting. "That hurt a lot."

"Well, you asked for it, didn't you?" Jungkook raised his eyebrows, shrugging. He gently turned to lay by Taehyung's side and pushed one of the omega's leg around him.

Taehyung sighed, snuggling into his chest. "It's okay. I loved it even if it hurt."

Only then did Taehyung realize that Jungkook's eyes were back to brown colour, and he felt embarrassed to tell all this to Jungkook in his normal state.

He shied away when Jungkook leaned down to kiss his blushing cheeks. "You're so cute. I love you so much, baby."

Those words made him much more shy. He just hid his face fully in Jungkook's chest.

It wasn't long until Jungkook's member loosened in him and huge loads filled him to the brim. Jungkook thrusted in the push his release deeper and make it stay there.

Taehyung hummed in delight. "You like that?" Jungkook asked, his sloppy thrusts getting stronger. Neither had the moon festival ended nor did the effect of the festival on Jungkook.

A while later, the red eyes returned and so did the harsh Jungkook who returned to banging into him.

He loved it all.

*-*-*-*

Jungkook woke up when he felt the male in his arms stir. Taehyung whined cutely when his neck hurt on having his face squeezed into a hard, rock like chest.

Jungkook patiently waited until Taehyung was completely awake, recollecting the last time he had woken up in such a peaceful state with his love in his arms.

"Kookie..." Taehyung whispered, wrapping his limbs around him lazily and leaving no space between them. He groaned under his breath when Jungkook's fluids flowed out of him. He was so filled that Jungkook's semen had been pouring out all night but still hadn't come out fully.

"Does it hurt?" Jungkook asked, caressing his red butt cheeks, patting on them slightly.

Ignoring the question, Taehyung thought about the tone of Jungkook's.

He seemed guilty.

Taehyung looked up and frowned when Jungkook just looked away.

"Why? Are you sad that it isn't Mira who is here or..."

He was just half-joking, and half seriously asking the question, but Jungkook's sour eyes gave him the answer.

"I'd rather die than spend a night with someone else willingly. I'm just sorry because I'm being so selfish now."

"How?" Taehyung asked. His free hand massaged Jungkook's back just to return the favour of having him massage his sore butt.

He felt proud when he saw the tiny hickey that he had managed to make on Jungkook even when the alpha wasn't giving him a chance to do anything more than scream and moan.

He pecked on it, blushing when Jungkook chuckled. He had forgotten that Jungkook was awake.

"Tell me why," Taehyung asked, coming back to the topic. "Why do you feel that you're selfish?"

"Look at what I did to you, Tae. I'm supposed to take care of you while letting you have the freedom to be with whoever you want to, but I pulled you away from others and brought you along with me."

"So... You'd chose to rather suffer with me than feel happy with me?"

Jungkook frowned. Taehyung shook his head, patting his chest.

"Don't worry about this, Jungkook. It's alright. I'm surely not hurt and consented to it all. I just need to quickly go and make some medicine to prevent pregnancy or I'd have myself filled with our babies."

Jungkook seemed to love the idea of seeing him like that.

Ugh, he was being selfish again.

Before he could wrap himself around Taehyung and lock him in a big bear hug again, he got up, putting on his clothes.

He wondered why Mira didn't stop him last night. She was surely doing something he would dislike.

Jungkook left after giving Taehyung one last sweet kiss as a thanks for helping him out, and he knew his day would go well as Taehyung had blushed and kissed him back on his cheeks, thanking him for the pleasure.

It was so cute. Jungkook couldn't control his heart that went wild due to his omega's actions.

Taehyung wasn't yet fully comfortable to say anything about what they were now, but whatever they had was developing.

That's good, according to Taehyung.

He sighed because he had to make medicine again so he wouldn't get pregnant.

This was the second time he was doing this after having sex with Jungkook, and it somehow felt more guiltier to do so now than taking medicine after sleeping with anyone else.

Those involved no strings at all, but he did like Jungkook a little bit now.

So he couldn't help but wonder ridiculous things like how it would be to hold Jungkook's pups and how good it would feel to be their mom.

He's never imagined such things before. He never wished to have babies with anyone else.

Jungkook isn't just anybody else. Was the thing he told himself to prove that it was alright to think what he was thinking.

He showered and wore his clothes before leaving his room and going to collect the ingredients he needed to make the medicine.

He brought the ingredients from the forests, all the while smiling like an idiot as he thought of last night, the number of times Jungkook confessed his love to him.

This was the best treatment a lovesick person could get.

He walked to the medical room in the palace, glad that there was no one there that time.

Well, that's what he thought.

When Taehyung was placing the herbs on the table and grabing the vessels to mash them up together, he heard a sweet and soft call, startling him.

He snapped his head around and saw someone he didn't want to see at that moment.

And the knowing glint and pleading look on her face proved that she wasn't here for nothing.

"Mira?" He gulps. "Why are you here?"

"You didn't eat the medicine, right?" She asks, sighing when she sees all the vessels still clean. "Don't take the medicine."

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wolves and human are one here so none of them have more knowledge or get to communicate through links and all that :)