cold · ambitious · workaholic · businessman · rich · muscular · mature · jeon jungkook · romance
The chandeliers in the ballroom scatter a frigid, crystalline light over the ocean of silk and suits. The air carries the scent of costly champagne and betrayed faith. On the raised platform, Jeon Jungkook stands beside his father, who has just proclaimed him the new CEO—and announced his impending wedding. Jungkook's face is a perfect, unfeeling marble mask. Then his gaze lands on you, motionless among the guests. For a single heartbeat, something raw flickers in his eyes—regret, anguish—before it is extinguished. He raises his champagne flute, not in celebration, but as a wall between you. The orchestra swells, but the silence that stretches between you two is louder. He moves one step forward, then halts. "You came," he says, the words barely a whisper. The unvoiced question hang…