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25 | shocks & stupors

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SHOCKS & STUPORS

❝When I wake up, would you be here right beside me?❞

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TAEHYUNG DROVE TO the place Xavier had sent him, with the documents in his hand. Tonight, everything was going to fall into place. The night had fallen already. The very few stars in the sky glistened brightly. Taehyung looked forward and noticed that the streets were awfully silent for the time it was. He couldn't help but wonder whether Jimin's ominous feeling was true in the end.

Every minute as it passed, Taehyung could feel a pit being formed in his gut. The place Xavier had sent him was an extremely quiet room in a construction site. Why couldn't Xavier have asked him to meet him at the palace? Taehyung knew deep down that he should turn back instantly but at the same time, he knew he had to find out why Xavier had called him in the first place.

Taehyung noticed Xavier's car parked outside and he realised that this was indeed the right place. The maps couldn't ever be that wrong, could it? Taehyung wondered if it would have been a smarter decision to have taken Jimin along with him. However, now was not the time to have regrets. Taehyung parked his car right behind Xavier's and ensuring he had a firm grip on the documents, he opened the door of his car and stepped down.

He walked further into the dark pathways of the construction site wondering which ever room he was in. Taehyung couldn't help but scream out in worry in his head, "What was Xavier thinking?"

"You came." Taehyung heard a distinct voice echoing slowly from ahead. Taehyung clutched the documents tighter and scanned the area around him. To say Taehyung was frustrated would have been an understanding. He was beyond the levels of being frustrated. Did Xavier think he was much powerful than the sole heir to the throne of Rossa?

"Is this a joke to you?" Taehyung yelled back. "Come out and talk to me, face to face, Xavier. Stop being a coward. I haven't come here to fight."

"Oh, but it was always a fight between us," Xavier commented, as his voice laced with a certain nonchalance that irked Taehyung. "From the time you decided to steal my girlfriend to now and further into the future."

"Do not bring personal affairs into administration or business, Xavier. Hasn't your father told you that?" Taehyung teased, as he looked at the silhouette metres away from him. The small beam of light that shone into the building was of great importance to Taehyung at that moment.

"Do not covet your neighbour's wife," Xavier cited the scripture and Taehyung looked at the silhouette in absolute surprise. "Hasn't the lord said that?"

"I'm not a Christian," Taehyung rolled his eyes. Xavier chuckled darkly and stared at his opponent at that moment.

"Then, Taehyung," Xavier paused and walked closer, allowing Taehyung to properly see the man's face. "Hasn't your mother told you that?"

Taehyung's face turned stern instantly. With his father changing wives that frequently, it was no surprise to Taehyung that the other kingdoms were aware of what happened in the walls of the royal kingdom of Rossa. However, the minute Xavier decided to stoop that low, Taehyung swore that he should have closed and come to terms in the contract a long while back.