Dominator's Property | Taekook

Chapter 5

Jungkook pov

After the ceremony was over we were all in the school's courtyard for photos. Dad rushed to me. He looked good. I'd only ever seen him in a suit once, at my Mom's funeral. His black doe eyes sparkled. Everyone said I had his eyes. He'd never been perfect, but we did things together. He taught me how to cook, we'd hang out together, he'd read me bedtime stories. He wasn't the perfect father or husband before she died but after she died, he was like a shell of a man who tried to drink and gamble away his pain.

He swung me around in a giant hug, making me squeal. "Jungkook, my baby bunny! I'm so proud of you. You look all grown up. Look at you. Someone take our picture!" He called out to the rest of our group and Rose hurried over with her camera. Suzy, my social worker, eyed my Dad warily. I knew she'd lost patience with him over the years. My dad lost his parental rights over me because of how neglected he was. He always managed to miss birthdays. It hurt that he could go that length of time without checking up on me, leaving others to raise me.

I'd never blamed my Dad aloud tho. I always thought of him as broken. He'd found my mom dead in the bathtub with slit wrists one day. It was a day when I was supposed to have been picked up from school late after a field trip that required parents to pick up the kids because it got us back after 7:00 at night. That night was a long one and I'd sat in the principal's office for hours while they tried to find someone to pick me up.

Finally my aunt had come along and brought me to her home. She hadn't told me about my Mom. She let me overhear her on the phone telling someone else that she was stuck watching me for the evening because my father was a wreck, mourning his dead wife who'd killed herself. What a way for me to find out. She was a witch, my Dad's sister.

She hadn't bothered with me all these years, just wrote me off. Mom hadn't had any family step up either. I heard she had an older brother but it seemed she was a bit of a black sheep with her family or something, too. I really had no idea. No one sought me out after she died.

So, here Dad was, all smiles for the camera, looking well fed, well groomed, and yet there was a weird aura about him, something in his eyes, a nervousness in his laugh. He seemed off, he kept checking his phone and looking around suspiciously. After the photo session, we all decided to go back to our house where a big buffet and gifts were waiting.

"Please join us, shi hyuk", Rose said to my Dad.

" I'd love to!" He beamed. "Jungkook, ride with me. We can catch up on the way back."

I nodded, feeling like something was way off. Did he have something to tell me? I was happy to see him; it'd been ages since I'd seen him, but something was off, I could just feel it.

He had a decent enough care, surprisingly. We drive through a coffee shop drive-thru for Dad to get a coffee and me to get an iced cappuccino on our way.

"Thanks so much for coming, Dad."

"Like I'd miss it!" He gave me an 'Are you kidding' look. As if he hadn't missed other milestones, like my confirmation, school plays, every single birthday since my 10th and so forth.

"What's new, then? You working?" I asked.

He nodded, " Yeah, I've been working at an auto parts place for 7 months. Got a nice apartment. Got myself a nice girlfriend, too. You'll like her. This is her car."

"Really? That's awesome!" It'd been the longest he'd held down a job for ages and this was the first relationship he'd ever told me about. He knew what was going with me, I'd already filled him up.

"Something off, though, Dad? You seem stressed."

He nodded quickly and said " Yeah, we need to talk."

I frowned,"Okay?"

"I'm in trouble."

My heart lurched, "What kind of trouble?"

He let out a heavy sigh, "I have old debts from when I was gambling. I haven't gambled in a long time, Jungkook. I go to a support group. The debt was sold to someone high up in organised crime, someone who hates my guts and has a vendetta from years back. He has decided to make my life difficult."

I nodded, urging him to continue, feeling dread spread through my gut.

"I need to figure out a way to get them paid. They've already given me an extension but they want a marker. I just need a few days to sort this out; I was hoping you could help me."

"How? How could I help you?" I didn't have any money. Well, $248 in my saving account from my job at the ice cream parlor but that was it.

"You need to be my marker." He said, resigned.

What do u guys think shi hyuk mean by being marker?

What will be jungkook's answer?

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