C/W: physical violence, blood, emotionally heavy.

Taesan’s POV

My hands shake against the steering wheel as memories of my mother play in front of my eyes.

The only omega that lived his life for me.

He was taken from his clan by my grandfather to be a breeding animal, he was meant to give the Kangs many children, but he couldn’t.

My mother gave birth to my sister first and had to hide her away, he wasn’t supposed to conceive again, but he was made to carry another child.

He gave birth to me, he was happy, he thought everyone ended with giving me life...but that was just the start of it all.

My mother couldn’t bear watching my grandfather shape me into the Kang beast he is.

He saw the horror behind grandfather’s intent, so most times, he would steal me away to fucking reeducate me.

’Baby, humans are important, omegas should be respected too...’

He was standing by my father’s side, they planned to bring good back, but they were both too weak...

They are the reason I know you can’t fucking beat evil with good.

"Fuck..." I whisper as my vision blur, images of my mother keep flashing in front of my eyes, the beautiful omega man with the permanent kind eyes.

I can fucking see him, days before his body hit the floor, pushed down by bullets and covered in blood.

My mother, who lived life staying up at night, wearing a smile while dying inside; ’Sannie, I have to color your world with a smile’ he once said.

My mother, fighting against my grandfather for my sake, he just didn’t want me hurt; ’Sannie, you are a child, you shouldn’t worry about poisons and bullets’ he once said.

My mother, taking the blow for me, accepting his position as...helpless and useless male omega; ’Sannie, I don’t have anything to offer, but don’t worry about me, in here for you only’ he once said.

"No" I whisper and grab my hair with both hands.

All the memories are coming too fast, like water flowing out of a dam.

Everything I’ve swallowed down for years, feelings of hurt that I’ve buried for days...it’s all coming back and clogging my fucking throat.

Hell, I am on the verge of losing my fucking mind, just on the tip of running mad on the spot.

"No!" I roar and hit my steering wheel again, pounding it till my palms turn red, till my eyes burn with unshed tears and till my chest fucking hurts.

Seoha’s parents killed my parents? They took my only hope away from me.

What did I fucking do to deserve that kind of pain?

And Seoha...why did he have to show up now? Is he here to mock me? Rub it in my face?

"Arghhh!" I roar and hit the wheel again, struggling to breathe and trying to make sense of it.

Inside my head feels like there is a hurricane that has been let loose.

Hundreds of thoughts swirl around, and I feel each drag of air in my lungs like a stab, like a punishment.

Was Seoha like Jaemin? Was he fucking sent to ruin me?

I ignite the engine and start to drive back home.

The thick scent of burning forest hangs over my head while I drive like a mad man, speeding down the rough road and growling like an animal.

Shin Yechan and his wife.

Shin Yechan...that bastard.

As soon as I arrive home, I storm into the kitchen and I find Seoha leaning against the counter.

The omega is barefoot and is dressed in my own shirt, the one I put on him before leaving home.

How dare him put on my covering when he took mine off me?

"Taesan-ah, you’re back-" his breath catches in his throat as I slam him against the wall with force, grabbing and squeezing his throat.

"Who sent you?" I growl in his face and the omega looks at me with absolute shock and pure horror as I hold him like that.

"Taesan..." he says my name with fear, eyes turning glassy with tears and mouth gaping, trying to draw in air.

"What is going on?" he asks in a small voice, wrapping his hand around my wrist, but not tugging them off.

He knows.

He fucking knows and I’m going to give him the justice my parents never had.

I’m going to kill him here and now, put an end to my misery and pain, mourn my parents properly.

"You" I hiss in his face, pushing him harder against the wall and he gasps loudly in pain, shutting his eyes to dull some of the pain but I don’t fucking care.

The smell of blood slowly fills the air and he hiccups, not the sound I want to hear, I want to hear him scream and beg.

Like the guilty thief he is.

"I’m going to kill you" I snarl in his face and his mouth open in a soundless scream and I lift my other hand to strike.

I lift the hand and draw my claws, ready to take him out, end his life completely and leave him to rot on this floor...but the blow I want to strike doesn’t come down.

Seoha’s POV

Blood.

I’m bleeding, I’m sure of it, I can feel the warmth of it trickling down my back and soaking up my cloth...my alpha’s clothes.

I hiccup as the pain hits and my sight blur, it’s not from tears, it’s from the impact.

What is going on? Why is alpha so angry at me?

One minute, I am arranging the teacups on the counter, and another minute, I am pressed against the wall by my alpha.

There is a dull throbbing pain at the back of my head, the pain comes from being slammed against the wall, and I shut my eyes to make it go away.

Am I...having a nightmare?

Did I sleep on the table? Do I inhale something that is giving me bad hallucinations? Why does it feel so real?

Taesan will never do this to me...the alpha...

"Is this a trap? Huh? Did you have fun fucking with me?" he asks me, face close to mine and he looks monstrous.

"I don’t understand..." I manage to say and he grabs both my shoulder, shaking me like a rag doll. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"Your clan killed my mother and father! Are you happy?" he roars in my face and a single tear runs down my cheek.

"I’m sorry...I...I don’t understand" I plead, fighting against the pain to stay away, fighting to stay conscious.

The pain is growing too fast.

"Why? Did you target me to finish what your parents started huh?" he asks and punches the wall above my head hard enough that it cracks.

"Please...I don’t know anything about it" I start to cry.

Not because of the pain, not because my life is over...but because I see how much he loved his mother.

"I’m sorry" I plead and the raging alpha slams me against the wall again, eyes red and vein bulging in his forehead.

He hates me.

My chest feel tight and terribly hot, my omega has gone into hiding, too scared to see our alpha like this.

"I should kill you" he whispers but moves away from me.

He repeats the words again and I fall to the floor, no longer supported by his arms, just...weak and tired.

I cover my face and cry for him, sob for what he is going through.

My family ruined him, my family took his happiness from him, my family is part of the reasons the boy became a monster.

"I should send you to join them! I should put a fucking bullet through your head and send you to hell, you bastard!" he sneers and I keep my head down.

If this is the last minute I get on earth, I want to die remembering his happy face, his awkward smile and his soft eyes.

I hear a gun cocking and I ready myself for death...but nothing.

He doesn’t shoot, he doesn’t speak, just...nothing.

"Get out" he says and I sob loudly.

"Get out, get lost and I don’t ever want to see you again, do you understand me?" he asks and I look up.

"Please..." I say, I don’t know what I’m begging for, death maybe?

But I’d have anything but leaving him, I don’t want to leave him.

"Alpha please, I- I’m sorry, I don’t know about it" I say and he turns his back on me.

"I will not repeat myself, I know where your grandmother lives, it will cost me nothing to take her fucking life" he says in a cold and detached voice.

I sob harder as I force my body up, my head hurts, my body can’t move, my omega is...gone.

"You have ten minutes to leave, or you’ll bury your grandmother in ten days, don’t fucking joke with my command" the alpha says and I force myself out.

Each step I take is left behind in a trail of blood...where do I go?