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Jihyun panicked when his mate suddenly burst into tears beside him. They were only settling in to sleep when her phone pinged with new notifications. Getting texts at night wasn't new. He didn't think much of it but crying like that? He didn't know what happened.

He woke immediately and approached her, shaking her shoulders. "Mina, what is it? Who were you talking to?"

His mate only covered her mouth, sniffling some more. "J-Jungkook."

"Jungkook?" His brows creased. "Why were you talking to him? Did he say something?"

She nodded before turning the phone screen toward him and the moment his gaze fell on the photo, he understood the reason for her tears. Because his vision too blurred.

He reached for the phone with trembling hands. "Mina, t-that's our...our..."

"Grandpup," she sniffled. "That's him. That's our Minjun."

"He's...he's so adorable." He caressed the tiny face through the screen. "Just so beautiful like our Jiminie."

Something shifted in his chest. His son. His pride and future. A son he shunned away because he was too proud to accept his love for a woman, who didn't deserve it. His throat tightened at the remainder. He should have sat him down and talked instead, told him why she wasn't a suitable match.

"He is," she agreed, bringing out of his thoughts. "He even looks like him when he was little." She wiped his cheeks.

"Are there more?" he asked eagerly.

She shook her head. "No. He only gave me this. It's not recent but...this is so precious," she cried. "If we hadn't cut him off, he would have been with us. We ruined everything." She covered her face. "Now he's having another pup and we don't know if we would ever be the part of it."

Mr. Park resigned to fate. He regretted his decision every day since Jimin left but he was also angry his son didn't come back. Over the years he came to believe he was in the right and it was the right thing to do. Talking about Jimin was a sore subject and so he avoided it like a plague until recently. He went back to read the brief chat and something lifted off his chest.

Jungkook was subtle when demanding and different from the person he was when they first met. It was clear he loved the food his mate made and wanted more, but the omega was also trying to be hard. Then he dropped that photo out of nowhere.

"He wouldn't have given us this if he didn't want us to be a part of their lives," Jihyun reasoned. He opened the photo to trace that adorable face again. "This is the olive branch. He's a motherless pup and pregnant for the first time. We don't know who is there to support him. You should help him."

Mina brightened up suddenly. "You're right. He wants more food and I'm going to give him whatever he wants. I'll make this right. But I also need to visit Jimin. He might have blocked me but my son can't turn me down if I go in person." Her features tightened with determination. "Whether he wants to listen or not, I'm gonna tell him how sorry I am. He needs to hear it from me. I'll beg him if that's what it takes."

He nodded. "I should apologise too. What would you do? It was me, who decided to remove him from the family tree in a fit of anger. It's all my fault," he lamented.

She shook her head. "You were angry."

"And irrational."

She nodded. "I should have tried harder to stop you."

He sighed. "I wasn't in a mind set to listen to you then." He rubbed her shoulders. "Come on. Let's sleep and deal with this tomorrow."

"Okay. I need to cook in the morning. Don't let me skip the alarms."

"Ok. I'll ask our driver to drop it off at school."

"Okay." She beamed.

When they lay back down, Jihyun heart was somewhat free of turmoil. He was almost six years late, but he would set things right.

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