The Prince's Love

18

HII!
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Queen Hana had tears in her eyes the moment she see the prince entering the palace gates.

She embraces him in a hug the moment he gets off the horse.

"I told you to take more guards with you." she hits him on his chest, then inspects her son cupping his face, eyes everywhere looking for an injury.

"I am fine omma." he says with an endearing smile.

"This is the first and the last time you went with less security, I won't allow it any further." she angrily glares at him, but doesn't look intimidating, rather cute so Jungkook pinches her nose and nods.

The king embraces him in a tight hug.

"I am all good Appa!" he mumbles.
Jungkook is grown up but for the both of them the prince is still a little, cute, fragile Jungkook, who used to cry when he didn't see any one of them.

"I can see that." his father says with a proud smile.

"And we need to discuss a lot, freshen up, have dinner and come to the meeting chamber." the prince nods.

Seokjin and Soobin already took Taehyung to his quarters.

"Jungkookie hyung is soo cool, I want to be like him." Soobin says when Taehyung told how the prince saved him during the attack. Taehyung smiles softly.

"He lifted you like that, wow! the strength and---"

"Enough Soobin, go out of the room let Taehyung rest." Seokjin says and Soobin pouts.

"Its okay hyung, I am not that tired." Taehyung says when he saw Soobin's expression dropped.

"No, you are tired, freshen up, Soobin will bring you dinner and after that if you feel like talking then you both can talk all you want." he orders and Taehyung nods like a puppy.

The prince had dinner in his room, the head chef himself served him, they talked a little and then Jungkook goes to the meeting room. He entered and saw Jongin and Eunwoo talking to the king, queen Hana beside him. The chief commander, Yoongi and Namjoon were also present. He takes his seat beside Jongin. The servants servers the tea and leaves when the queen gestures.

"So they were not the bandits." the king says taking a sip.

"Yeah." Jungkook replies. The guards nods.

"And how do you know?" the king questions.

"The first reason is obvious, we had a peace pact with the bandits, means they will never attack the Jeons'." the king nods when the prince says.

"Their aim was the royal, bandits don't attack the royals, they just loot things." Jongin says.

"Moreover, they didn't robbed us, only took few bags to show that they are infact bandits, they keep attacking us, their focus was not on the things but to harm the royal and the guards." Eunwoo says.

"Jongin said they didn't know who the royal was? If it was a planned attack the attacker must know the royal ?" Namjoon questions. Others look for the three to answer.
"This is the only thing that is confusing, but the attack was planned I am sure of it." the prince answers.

"They dressed up as bandits, they didn't look like guards of other kingdom." Jongin says.

The king looks at Yoongi, who was silent not even nodding to anything.

"Who could it be?" queen Hana says as she rubs her temples.

"Lee Jae Joong." the prince says with a surity, his fist tightening.