Taehyung made his way inside Jimin's apartment as opened the door for him. Welcoming him with a stern gaze and no words left him to understand that his brother was in a deadly mood and he better get right on the subject instead of making any unnecessary silly comments.

"It was not my fault. I want you to really grasp this sentence before I go on, okay? Really." He uttered as soon as he reached the living room and heard Jimin's footsteps approaching behind him, once turning around meeting his eyes that were shooting fire.

"That's for me to decide. Speak! Who the heck did you sign that check to?" He demanded and Taehyung looked around the room,  finding it a bit difficult to tell him that it was his ex-girlfriend for he surely knew he was not gonna like that.

"Does it really matter who? I mean I just wrote the sum and left the name for her to fill..."He admitted finding his own self at wrong at that action for he had totally made it easier for his money to be sent to anyone yet when he had signed that check, he had not thought of it that far.

"You either cooperate or I am gonna find out myself and I will skin them alive along with you," Jimin uttered his words in a rather calm tone yet it managed to send shivers down Taehyung's spine for he looked way too serious and he totally had him capable to make his words a reality. Everyone knew after all that when it came to business, Jimin was not someone to play with.

"Song Nari, it was your ex-girlfriend. She asked for money and I gave her more than she asked. I felt guilty towards her so...She said she was in a tight spot. How was I supposed to know that she was lying?" He tried to defend himself and Jimin couldn't help but approach and smack the back of his head.

"What do you mean how? She literally threatened to take revenge on us both back then. Don't you remember? She threw a whole ass vase on your head." He reasoned with him, reminding him that if he should have been cautious of someone from the past, that should have definitely been her. 

He had never seen someone so angry in his life. She was the second girlfriend he had after Naerin. It had been three months since he and Taehyung were not talking to each other as their relationship had broke when he happened to start seeing Nari as a potential relationship. They were colleagues and as such happened to cross paths often making an interest appear from both sides. An interest that grew to become a relationship that did not last more than two months or so, simply because Taehyung found out and started courting her, pretending like he was madly in love with her till she finally got her to believe him and cheat on Jimin with him.

When he had found out, he was more disappointed than he was hurt for he had seen his brother for the first time, placed his words into action but he was also surprised by the aftermath of that, since he obviously had to break up with her and once she came to realize the fact that basically Taehyung had manipulated her to achieve his goal against Jimin, she threw such a fit.

He clearly remembered how she accused him for not having told her prior so she could have been more cautious of his ill intentions and had literally threw a vase at Taehyung, screaming that he was a despicable jerk that she will definitely avenge one day.

"You do have a point but she didn't pretend to have forgiven me or anything. She just seemed in a tight spot that had made her lower her pride...or so I believed. Maybe it wasn't her that did it." Taehyung argued as he had gave a look on his way there to the pictures of the documents that Jimin had sent him, in order to inform him of what was he furious over.

"I don't care if she did it! That matters less right now. The problem is that the check is not false and ultimately you did pay 500,000 to a brothel house!" He layed down the facts as he proceeded to leave a heavy exhale escape his lips and his hand to reach at his forehead where he rubbed his temple slightly.

"Didn't you say that it was Mr. Jung that gave you the papers? I am sure it was his doing. This most likely is a subtle threat." Taehyung concluded, finding his feelings towards the husband of their aunt becoming a bit darker. Or should he better say the husband of his real mother,as his aunt was. The thought only crossing his mind made him feel sick to his stomach again as he had yet to accept that reality.

"He is after us, I sure agree with that. We need to hurry. We need to find some dirt on him and quick. If we don't get the upper hand, we are gonna be in his mercy." Jimin's word made Taehyung snicker as he didn't saw the situation as that critical nor had that man capable of doing anything to them.

"Please, so what if he has proof that I supposedly spend money on a socially shameful event. It's not something we can recover from. "

"Oh yeah? You sure speak as if you don't have anything worst looming over your past that you should hide at all costs." Jimin made eye contact with him, making his brother perplexed over what he meant.

"We need to find something on him. Something as scandalous and huge as our secret Taehyung. Because if he finds out what relationship we both had with our stepmother, we are doomed." Jimin uttered his fearful thoughts straight out, leaving Taehyung to actually realize that they still had a stain that could literally end them in the eyes of society, if it was to be discovered.

"He is after us so he is gonna dig as in depth as he can manage Tae. If he finds out that before we get something strong on him, it's gonna be game over for us. Do you understand?" He left their eyes met, in the atmosphere looming the energy of urgency and fear that he was emitting and Taehyung found his chest feeling heavy at the thought and only that a day may come that he will have to be judged and looked down upon, just because he so happened to love who he shouldn't have.

The thought of shaming his father's memory and name, also made him feel as if he was placed before a grave that had his name engraved on it and was just waiting to welcome his body.

"We will find something. You are great at finding out things and I am great on bringing situations to my advantage. The shareholders on the recent meeting claimed that they will support me to take the CEO post permanently. I can still keep them on my side, I will find ways." He spoke with confidence as he was trying to reassure himself and Jimin that he could still manage to fight against whoever were those who were trying to take them both down.

"I am counting on you." Jimin placed his hand on his shoulder before continuing his words. "Don't fall into self blaming of the past or think of fixing those mistakes. This is not the time to own up to anything and we don't owe any explanation or apologies to anyone else but our father. And he accepted and loved us anyway so we better get ourselves together. They are trying to get our father's wealth away from us so leave your feelings aside." He stared into his eyes as he left their foreheads come in contact, breaking to him all that passed through his head till he saw a more strong determination flashing on Taehyung's eyes.

"What feelings? I have a title to live up to. I can throw the beautiful nickname of demon number 2 ,that Y/N gave me, to go to the waste " He replied, with a mischievous smile hanging on his lips and a profound control over himself.

"That silly naming, really. She used to call me demon number 1  and for what? I had barely done anything bad to her, you on the other hand deserve the title though."

" Excuse me,what? Do you hear yourself?" Taehyung argued , finding Jimin's statement absurd for he definitely doesn't recall him being that nice to you either, yet here he was, shoving everything on him .

" I was trying to give her a lesson. My behavior had a purpose while you were just entertaining yourself."

"Maybe but at the end of the day, I am sure you were the one that got the most entertainment " he teased him, wiggling his eyebrows at him, right before he received a slap at his arm by Jimin.

"Get lost. I have nothing more to discuss with you. You better be cautious and keep me updated about everything though because if one more surprise like this one comes my way, I will seriously make you regret your existence."

"Pft, you are all words. We all know you love me deep down." He acted a bit cute at him and Jimin finally cracked a smile over his behavior.

"Yeah sure. Unfortunately that love is hidden so deeply that I fail to find it and pick it up but I definitely have my annoyance right at the surface, so do try me if you want." His response wasn't as sweet as Taehyung was expecting despite the fact that Jimin spoke with a smile on his face, making him leave his face fall.

"You are lame." He stated as he turned around to leave and Jimin didn't even bother to look his way as insulting each other back and forth was more than a normal thing in their relationship.

He heard the door closing as he was walking to his desk, where once he sat at, he proceeded to grab a key from his shelf and walk away to his bedroom, where in his closet, at a corner, there laid a suitcase that was filled with documents and files his father had entrusted him with as well as information on people he had personally requested his trusted people to search upon. People that he surely intended to use again, in hopes of getting his hands on something dirty of Mr Jung.

"No one is a saint in this world. No way he's gonna be clean. Let's just hope whatever mistake he may have done, it would be a big one." He murmured under his breath, finding it slightly funny that he was basically hanging on someone's missteps to save his own skin.

---To be continued...

I was supposed to update yesterday but my laptop kept playing games 😭😭

At least I updated tho 😂

Hope to see you all soon again~~
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