(Pierce POV)
Before the judge even announced the verdict I knew what the sentence would be.
Mika had won.
The kid would only go to juvenile detention for one year; possibly six months for good behavior.
"Pierce I'm..."
Icarus turns to apologize to me, but I shake my head.
"It wasn't you," I tell him as I stand to walk away. Bursting through the courtroom doors as that all too familiar stone cold feeling of numbed existence coats insides.
"Pierce!"
I heard him call my name but refused to turn around. The press was already in hot pursuit with a million questions I didn't care to answer.
"PIERCE!"
I keep walking until I reach the doors to the outside world and feel his hands grip my arm.
At his softest touch, I freeze in place.
"Pierce, I'm sorry. I had to do it. I was just doing my job." Mika Park tries to excuse himself for what he did and I snatch my arm back, slowly turning on my heel and facing him.
"Mika, oh sweet innocent Mika, you've done nothing wrong," I whisper with just enough volume for only the two of us to hear.
His expression softens as the tears fill his big brown eyes as I stood face to face with my soul mate.
"Everything I build, every shred of happiness I desire turns to dust. I think I've been cursed, to be honest," I continue to his soft sniffle.
I wanted to close the gap between us, to hold him and tell him everything was going to be just fine because I was going to take care of it. In the moment, where it was the two of us, time seemed to slow and all I focused on was him.
He was the only person who could read my thoughts like an open book without trying.
"I regret the day I left you," He says and takes the breath from me.
He tells me now.
After all these years.
"And now everything seems so impossible,"
On that note, I exit the court fulfilled.
***
The water in the sink overflows as I stare into the mirror. Taking a few shaky breaths, I stumble and fall as the world starts to spin from the multiple pills I shoved into my body. In my final moments, I think of Tae and Clara.
Their little faces haunt me in my last breaths.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't strong enough to be your father,"
I finally...
surrender...
to the darkness.
"Daddy?"
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Dear Taehyung, (MxM)
General FictionWhen his best friend murder's his ex, Pierce Grayson finds himself entangled in a complicated web of lies and deceit. Thrown into the oblivion of uncertainty he only knows one thing for sure. He'll protect his son Taehyung at all cost and nothing wi...
