"We have laid her down in the vacant room in the basement. She might be up after a good couple of hours." Jieun said as she entered the room filled with the guys who were waiting for their arrival.

"Where is Aera?" Yoongi asked as he glanced behind her.

"She is setting up some pain killers and water for Miss Choi. She will have one hell of a hangover when she wakes up. She had consumed a lot of booze."

Jimin sighed as he rubbed his temples. A hand on his shoulder made him lookup to see Taehyung giving him a tight lipped smile. He had no idea how he would have survived this long if it was not for his best friends and his sister. And the main reason he was living. Aera.

"It's fine man. It's going to be all good." Jungkook nodded at him as he turned towardso the door when Aera entered.

"She is fine. She will just have a headache nothing worse." Her eyes trained themselves on Jimin who gave no reaction. His main problem with the entire involvement of Mira was the fact that Aera would be affected by it somehow. He had seen how she had reacted the first time they had talked about her and the disappointment in her eyes where so deep that he still couldn't shake them off his mind. And they weren't even together then.

But now. They were together and the shit loads of romantic feelings he had for Aera made it more frustrating how he wanted to avoid Mira from being in his life in anyway. His eyes stayed on her face as she kept her straight face and walked out. His feet were on their own. They needed to talk. He had to take this eerie feeling out of his system before he exploded.

"Aera!" His voice rang in the corridor making Aera slow down as she halted but did not turn. The tapping of his shoes on the granite floors made Aera aware that he was walking to her and she just wanted to run. She was in a messy mindset. She felt guilty. The concern she had seen in Jimin's eyes for Mira made her go back to the time when they must have been so precious to each other although she had no idea about it.

Her existence was a mere coincidence in Jimin's life. Maybe if she had not loved him or moreover confessed it then Jimin would have been gladly loving Mira. They would have been happy. But her entry made everything different. The whole plot was turned upside down because of her.

"Why are you not talking to me?"

His voice invaded through the dark clouds of insecurity in her mind as she turned towards his voice to see the hardened look on Jimin's face.

"I...I have been busy." She said as she let her eyes down.

"You have not been talking to me ever since Mira came into the picture."

Aera blinked finding it difficult to breathe. The scent of his was becoming more overwhelming as he was advancing towards her, one step at a time.

"Talk to me." His husky whisper made her look at him. They stared at each other. Standing there in the middle of the corridor, both of them just stared at each other until a tear drop effortlessly fell of Aera's eye. Jimin was about to loose his mind. Her silence had been biting at him and now that she was crying, it made him terribly powerless.

He had seen many people being ruled over by him. Through the years of his management in MYTHE, he had been ruthless to people. Tears never made him weak but seeing Aera tearing up made his heart twist in agony if not worse. His mouth fell apart as he reached forward to wipe the fluid off her cheek before taking her hand in his and dragging her to his room.

"Aera..." he kneeled down in front of her crouched figure on the bed with his hands rubbing her thighs gently as she sniffled.

"Talk to me baby."

Aera looked up at him. Her skull was pounding with the amount of blood rushing up to her brain as she tried to refrain herself from saying anything to him. This wasn't right.

"I am sorry." She said as she wiped her tears.

"Why are you sorry?" His hands held her face gently as he rubbed her cheeks in an attempt to calm her down.

"For...for detaining Mira..I know you
love her—"

"Wait." Jimin held her wrist to stop her from talking his brows scrunched up.

"What the hell are you talking about?" His voice was hoarse as he questioned her.

"If it wasn't for me, you would have been well off with Mira. Both of you belong to high profile families and I am just a violent person who goes about killing drug dealers and criminals. We don't fit together. Me meeting you is all a coincidence. I was never supposed to be here. I am nothing but danger to you."

Jimin just stared at her.

This is what she was thinking all this while?

"You think we weren't meant to be?"

Aera looked up with her blood shot eyes as they stung with new tears on their way. Hearing it made it more difficult than thinking about it twenty four seven.

"I—"

"No. You were never supposed to be here? You are danger to me?" He scoffed at her before standing up and running his fingers in his hair.

"You are trying to protect me. My family. My friends from something that it is trying to harm us. And you think you are danger to me. If anything, you are my saviour. You were supposed to be with me." He said as the glistening in his own eyes caught Aera's attention.

"You are supposed to be mine."

His claim on her made Aera sob as she hid her face in her palms. This was it. She had no idea how tormented she had been feeling. This was exhausting but the exhaustion was more in a mental form than a physical one. The grip on her wrists made her pulled her hands lower as his face popped in front of her face.

"Don't you agree?" He asked with a small smile.

"Hmm." She hummed at him making him smile brightly as his eyes disappeared.

"I promise you Aera. I love you. Not Mira. She was my past that has just come around. I don't want her presence to affect us in any way. I love you and only you. And I am not leaving you ever when you look so bad ass while beating people up. It's a hidden kink, you know."

"Kink?" She giggled through her tears as Jimin wrapped his hands around her shoulder and pulled her closer.

"Yes. I can't just let anyone have Sexy Lee Aera who is all mine." He said as he eased out of the hug to press his lips on hers and tasting the saltiness lingering on them due to all the tears she had shed.

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