41 ⋆ Canines

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Jungkook's POV

Two guards stood outside of the cabin, keeping guard as I approached. They bowed their heads as I got to the door and unlocked it, opening the inside to reveal Donghae sitting against one of the wooden walls, twiddling straw in his fingers.

He looked up at me and smirked. "He's dead, isn't he? I killed him, didn't I?" He taunted, setting down the piece of straw he was playing with.

I raised a hand to one of the guards, signaling I wanted to be left alone with him. Donghae's smile dropped as the door closed and left us alone.

The black cloak I wore around my shoulders swept the floor, dusting up some straw as I moved across from him and sat down.

"I will admit, you got a good mate there. All he did was beg for you, but he fought hard to stay alive too. I admire that, I do. But you understand why I did what I did, don't you? I can't have you coming into my pack, trying to take the only thing I could use to get your land. I had to kill him." Donghae reasoned, watching my every move as I stayed put without a word.

"Aren't you going to say something?" Donghae asked, bringing up a knee to rest his elbow on as he held the right side of his face in his hand.

I looked down at the floor, staring at the straw. The walls cracked and split in places where wind could seep in. It was almost exactly the same as to what Jimin was held in.

"He was human." I whispered, looking back up at Donghae who stared back at me, expecting me to go on. "He was human. He didn't know our life, didn't know our ways. He didn't even know we existed, and yet, I brought him into our world and I made him live it as if he had grown up the way we did. He was human, but you killed him."

"If you're trying to make a point here, you're doing a poor job." He scoffed.

I shook my head, "I'm not trying to make a point. I'm trying to make you realize you killed Jimin - my Jimin." I whispered with a desperate passion.

"You killed my Miyong and Ara." He countered with no remorse, looking back up at me.

"You were the one who brought them to the battlefield during a war between two packs. Your partner and your child." I squinted my eyes at him, "This war killed Miyong and Ara, but you killed Jimin. And this all started with you, with my sister. Your mate, who you murdered. She was human too. Just like Jimin, Narae was human."

Donghae glared at me for bringing up the topic of Narae. "They're weak, unlike us. I loved Narae. I did. But I didn't love her as a human. I thought she would live. I saw strength in her, unlike all of the other humans I had seen, and I thought she could survive. But she didn't, and I realized how weak they all really were."

He let out a chuckle, "You can imagine the irony when I discovered you had been mated to one, fallen in love too. It came to my mind not only could I get him to negotiate land from you, but also to see how strong he was as well. Unfortunately, it appears they're all weak."

The anger in my bubbling more and more at his words. "Jimin wasn't weak. I knew him, and weak was something he wasn't. He survived in your miserable conditions - malnutrition, cold, rape, everything. He survived. He only died because those two teeth in your mouth-" I stopped, my eyes falling on his mouth as a sudden realization came to me.

I quickly stood and knocked on the door, the guards letting me out as I walked into the cold air, Donghae staring confusedly behind me.

"Alpha?" One of the men called. I continued walking, determined, as I got further and further away from the shack and closer to my home.

The door of my home shook under my force as I yanked it open, practically pulling it off the hinges. I made a beeline for the basement door, pulling it open too and revealing the stairs that descended deep below. I walked down the stairs, until I finally reached the bottom.

My hand stumbled in the dark for the light, but I finally found it, tugging the chain to illuminate the room. A wall of tools stood before me as I hesitantly walked forward, scanning the wall for what I was looking for.

Finally, I saw them in the top left corner and I snatched them quickly, turning off the light and ascending up the stairs. I didn't even bother to close the basement door, or the front door for that matter, as I charged back out into the cold air.

"Alpha?" The guard asked again as I approached.

"Open the goddamn door," I growled, he nodded and quickly unlocked the door, opening it for me.

Donghae looked up, his eyes doubling in size as I stormed forward and grabbed the back of his hair. He growled as I pulled him to the middle of the shed, one arm locked around his neck to keep his head in place as the other hand gripped the pair of pliers.

"What the fuck are you doing? Are you crazy!?" Donghae panicked, the sight of the pliers making him struggle against my grip.

"You're never going to kill another human again, Yang." I growled, shoving the metal tool into his mouth and grabbing his right canine.

Donghae whimpered in alarm, his eyes wide as I yanked harshly, tearing the sharp tooth from his gums. He screamed, blood pouring from the hole I had made as I dropped the ivory tooth to the straw floor.

I stuck the plier on the other tooth and without a moment's hesitation, pulled it too with a sickening crack and squelching sound from the gum. I let him go as he crumpled to the floor, whining pitifully and holding his mouth, large amounts of blood gushing from the spaces between his fingers.

I panted heavily, dropping the pliers as I slowly raised my hands into my field of vision, my palms and fingers covered in a thick, red liquid.

I grabbed the teeth from the floor, stepping over Donghae as I exited the cabin. "Let him go." I growled.

An Alpha without their canines was worse than death itself. I wanted Donghae to live in shame and suffer for as long as he lived.

The guards looked at each other but nodded, hesitantly following after me as they left the door wide open, leaving the howling excuse for an Alpha to writhe on the straw floor.

Trudging down the gravel path towards Yoongi's house, my black cloak sweeping across the gravel and sending pieces flying in different directions behind me.

I banged on Yoongi's door, making him come quickly with wide eyes. "What? What is it?" He asked anxiously, pulling on a shawl over his shoulders as he let me inside. I pushed through the door and sat down at his table as he closed the door behind me and sat down next to me.

He stared at me with worried eyes as I slowly opened my left hand, revealing the bloody pearly whites of Donghae Yang.

Yoongi cocked an eyebrow at the sight, then looked back up at me.

"He'll never be able to hurt another person with these again." I told him.

Yoongi nodded and grabbed the teeth from my hand, walking over to a sink to wash them off. I waited as he cleaned them thoroughly before returning to me.

"What are you going to do with them?" He asked as he slowly sat back down in the chair.

"I'm going to do what traditional Alpha's did with the teeth of their enemies." I said.

"And you want me to do it." He finished my thought, making me nod.

"I need this." I said.

Yoongi nodded and rose from the chair, grabbing the teeth once more and a small knife from the counter beside us. I watched as he whittled down the pointed end of the tooth and made a sharp point, setting down one and picking up another between his index and thumb.

"Okay. Here we go." He said as he grabbed my ear lobe and quickly shoved the sharp end of the tooth through.

I didn't wince at all as he pushed it through, instead, I felt pride in wearing the tooth in my ear. It was strange, but it was a symbol of conquest and victory.

Yoongi pushed the other through, and I left without a word soon after to my home.

The moon was starting to rise into the sky by the time I got back to my house, still as empty and dark as it was two days ago. He had been dead nearly three days now, but it felt like eternity.

I let out a sigh I didn't even know I had been holding in as I tugged the cloak from my shoulders and hung it in my closet, stripping everything else off as well as I went to start a shower. I turned on the hot water and looked in the mirror before getting inside, inspecting the new ear piercings.

A sad smile spread across my face before I got into the shower and began to clean my hair and my body.

All of the memories Jimin and I had shared inside of this shower made my heart sink, and I got out as soon as I washed everything off of my skin.

The first time I had seen him naked, a million kisses, the time we had both gone under the water in our clothes, everything filled my head, making me gasp and plant my hands on the bathroom counter to steady myself.

I carefully pulled a towel around my waist and held onto the marble. I looked at myself in the mirror, my hands planted on either side of the sink as the water droplets from the shower fell softly onto the marble countertops.

My hand rubbed the mating mark on my neck, piercingly black. Usually, wolves' mating marks turned blacker after they matured. But Jimin was human, and for human mates, mating marks were always red. It was strange that the mark had turned black all of a sudden.

Nestled on my neck, the beautiful small blackened symbol was like a mockery, mocking how Jimin was human, mocking how he suffered in a wolves pack as a human, mocking how I was the reason why Jimin was dead. I should had never chosen him as my mate, then this wouldn't had happen. Jimin would still be alive.

Without realizing, I winced in pain, as I had grip on my mark too hard. My shoulders heaved with every breath as I looked away, pulling away from the counter to walk to the closet. I pulled on some old grey sweatpants and one of Jimin's hoodies before returning to the bathroom to dry my hair.

Before I could even get through the bathroom doorway, the sound of glass shattering sounded downstairs.

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