Jungkook

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Taehyung threw the silk pillow at the wall.

• You're breathing too loudly!

"I'm doing my job, Your Highness," Jungkook replied calmly.

"Your job is to be invisible. And you're failing at it."

The prince turned sharply. Fragile, angry, his eyes seething with resentment at the entire world. The golden cage was squeezing him ever tighter.

• I order you to leave.

“Yes,” Guk answered calmly. “But not today.”

Instead of bowing his head, Jungkook stepped forward towards him. Now there was a mere elbow of air between them. The smell of iron and old wood. Taehyung lifted his chin, but his heart sank—this guard never broke his distance.

"Your father ordered me to protect you," Jeong said quietly. "Even when you hate me."

His hand rested on the prince's waist, confidently, checking, as if he were looking for a hidden threat.

• Tomorrow at the ball they will try to kill you... And I need to know that you are safe.

Taehyung flinched, pressing himself against the wall.

• You're crazy.

— Perhaps. But shadows are always closer than they seem.

The guards' footsteps echoed down the corridor, and the tension grew more intense.

• If they see us...

"So be it," Jungkook replied. "Then I'll have to choose: kill them... or never leave your side again."