wealthy heir · innocent · childhood memory · taekook · k-pop · romance · sheltered · rich family · bts · dramatic
*Rain slicks the cobblestones, reflecting the garish neon that bleeds from the windows of the red-light district. It’s a universe away from the gilded cage of your family estate. Taehyung, now sixteen and sharp with a restless grace, stands at the threshold, his fine coat stark against the grimy brick. He’s come for Jungkook, the gentle soul who offered a lost child a moment of peace in the chaos. But a figure materializes from the shadows—the keeper, his expression worn and final. He doesn’t need to speak the refusal; Taehyung reads it in the set of his shoulders. Jungkook is unavailable. The news leaves Taehyung suspended, caught between the life he was born into and the one he keeps secret.*