Chapter 1: The Assassin's Mistake ⚔️🌑

The night wrapped around Taehyung like a cloak, silent and suffocating, masking his every movement. He was a shadow, a wraith, his blade gleaming under the flickering lantern light as it hovered just above its target. One strike. One kill. The perfect ending to the perfect night. 🔪✨

He approached, each step calculated, his breath shallow, steady. The heir lay in the dim light, wrapped in furs, unaware of the death standing just above them.

Everything about them was peaceful-too peaceful. So fragile. So breakable.

But as Taehyung raised his dagger, a strange pulse raced through him. It wasn't hesitation. It was something deeper. Something wrong.

His fingers tightened on the hilt, urging him to move, to end it. His muscles trembled, fighting his instincts. His heart thundered in his chest.

"Do it," his mind screamed.

And yet, his body

He stepped back, his breath catching in his throat as a force-not of the physical world-held him still.

Then-eyes.

Dark. Piercing. They locked onto him, and Taehyung's pulse faltered.

This wasn't fear. No, it was far worse. It was recognition.

"You're late," the heir murmured, their voice a quiet thread that cut through the thick silence of the night.

Taehyung froze. There was no pleading. No scream of fear. Just... calm.

"You were expecting me?" Taehyung's voice sounded foreign to his own ears. He hadn't planned for this.

"Of course," they replied, the faintest of smiles curling their lips. "You always come."

That smile-it wasn't one of fear, or anger, or even hatred. It was the smile of someone who knew something Taehyung didn't, something far beyond the reach of his blade.

Before he could make sense of it, pain exploded through his chest-searing, relentless.

A curse. A burn. A mark-there.

His dagger slipped from his hand, the world spinning as his body buckled. The pain wasn't from his muscles or his bones. It was from somewhere deep within, something unseen.

His chest tightened. His fingers brushed over the skin where the mark now smoldered beneath his leathers, heat pulsing from it like a second heart.

"What did you do to me?" His voice cracked, raw with confusion and panic.

The heir sat up slowly, watching him with eyes that shimmered with understanding.

"You're bound to me now," they said, their tone quiet, matter-of-fact, as if speaking to someone who should already know this truth.

Bound.

His breath faltered. No. This couldn't be real.

The heir's gaze darkened, and the weight of their words hit him like a physical blow.

"If I die," they continued, "so do you."

His heart stuttered. Every muscle in his body froze as if the very air had turned to stone.

He wasn't just an assassin anymore. He was a prisoner.

No longer in control of his fate. Bound to someone he was supposed to kill.

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End of Chapter 1

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💥 What happens next? 💥

Taehyung's world has just shattered. Bound to the very heir he was sent to kill, everything is now out of his control. Will he fight to survive? Will he find a way to break the curse? Or will he become a prisoner to his own fate? 🖤🔮

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