Episode - 5

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He didn't flinch. Didn't even blink. Silence. His other hand was already moving before the broken blade hit the floor, ripping forward, plunging into the throat of the assassin who'd thrown it. A spray of red hit the wall like paint. The body dropped, twitching, convulsing then went still. Jungkook turned his head slowly, scanning the next wave of attackers. Not rushed and not panicked. Calm in a way that Tae couldn't take his eyes off him. Predatory. Focused. Controlled violence incarnate. Tae's gaze lingered. He could not look away.

His pulsed thundered in his ears. Not from fear, no, not exactly. Something worse. Or better. He could not tell. How does someone move like that, so precise, so lethal, like death was an extension of his hands? He moves so calmly. The heat rising in his chest had nothing to do with the fire around them. His breath hitched as his eyes dragged over the curve of his shoulders, the ripple of muscle beneath leather and armor, the sharpness of his molten - glass eyes. He could not name this feeling.

And the worst part? When Jungkook caught him staring, he knew. His eyes cut to him for the briefest second. A flicker. A knowing. The kind that said, I see you. I feel you. And you're mine, even if you don't know it yet. Tae's stomach twisted. His fingers clenched into Jungguk's jacket, his entire body torn between fight, first, and something far more dangerous.

" Move", Jungkook's voice snapped like a whip. " Breach point, north hanger. Now".

Jungguk adjusted his hold on Tae without even asking. " Secured".

" Good. Jae-hyung, front. Jaegguk, near. Justin cut their eyes. Go". Jae-hyung led, smashing through reinforced barriers like a battering ram made of rage and alloy. Jaegguk's chains writhed in the shadows behind, dragging bodies into the dark where their screams cut short. Justin sprinted sideways along a shattered beam, fingers flickering with data streams. "Surveillance down. Targeting down. Firewalls crumbling. " They're blind for ten seconds ".

" Then we're ghost ". Jungkook's claws flexed. " Or we're dead". As they sprinted, more gunfire tore through the collapsing auction hall. Tae buried his head against Jungguk's shoulder as plasma round shedded the walls around them. But his eyes kept drifting. Back to him. To the way Jungkook moved like liquid violence, his strikes surgical, his body fluid but coiled with a devastating strength. Every turn, every skill, was a dance of precision. A predator that didn't waste anything.

And whether it was fear, adrenaline, or something darker, he couldn't look away.

" Why him?" The whisper was his alone. His chest ached. His skin felt too tight. " Why does it feel like.... like I know him. Like...."

he bit it back. Not the time. Not the place. Not ever. The hangar doors exploded outward. Fire and smoke swallowed the skyline as alarms blared across the city's network. A gunship hovered, waiting there stolen ride.

To be continued........

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