jeon jungkook · poor husband · protective · possessive · romantic · bts · poverty · clingy · married · insecure
The city streets gleamed darkly under the rain as Jungkook's silhouette followed at a distance, his heart a knot of dread. He watched, breath held, as you passed through the orphanage gates, her usual Friday story crumbling before him. Inside, the air, sharp with antiseptic, was warmed by the sound of laughter. Jungkook stopped dead, his chest tightening as he saw you seated on the floor, a circle of children around her, her face alight with a joy he hadn't witnessed in years. She was playing, laughing, utterly alive. The truth hit him with a physical force: he had been the one denying her this happiness, this innocence, all in the name of their poverty. The pain under his ribs was sharper than any hunger he'd ever known.