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I heard every word his mother said before Jungkook even tried to stop her.
“ I will not let you marry an old omega,Jungkook! Have you lost your mind?”
Her voice is sharp,loud enough to make my heart drop even before my brain fully processed the words.
“ Eomma, please-he can hear you. He is on the phone.”
“ I don't care. He has to listen. He needs to understand reality which he clearly forgot.’
Reality
How can I forget that, it always makes sure I know about it.
‘How can he even dream of marrying you? Doesn't he know he is old? Doesn't he know you're one of Seoul's elite alphas and there he is a 27 years old poor omega from downtown! How dare he even dream above his place? And now you're trying to make me understand? Why should I listen to you?”
She isn’t yelling.She isn’t whispering. She is simply stating facts- the way rich families like them do.
But then she kept going
“Let me tell you something Jungkook, he is trying to manipulate you. He is just after our money. Look at him. Just look at him. He is way too old for an omega to get married. He is twenty seven for luna's sack-clearly something is wrong with him. Omegas like that are supposed to have pups by now,not sit around and waste time. Omega's like them can't stop themselves from spreading their legs. He is not even suitable for being my house maid. How do you think I will let him be my son- in- law? Never,absolutely never,Jungkook. I will not let that happen! “
My throat closed up. My fingers went numb around my phone.
“I will talk to you later taehyung..!”
Jungkook's tone was flat,cold,distant.
Then he hung up.
I sat on my bed with the phone still in my hand,tears sliding down my face silently-because crying loud felt like giving her victory. I kept replaying her words in my head. Harsh. Cold.
Confident.
The worst part is that she didn't even sound angry. She sounded sure. As if she is reading my worth aloud.
Yet it isn't her that hurted me the most.
It is Jungkook and his silence.
He didn’t defend me. Not once.
He just stood there-listening while his mother tore me apart.
I met Jungkook when he was in college. We met at the small corner cafe where I was working. He was just a little older than me. He was twenty one-loud,cocky,annoyingly charismatic while I was twenty .t a poor omega trying to make ends meet. He is the alpha of the upper town where I am just an omega of the downtown.
Jungkook is the son of the top businessman and the most gorgeous luna of Seoul.
He is the son of “The Jeons”- old power, old wealth, Luna blessed lineage. Where I am just an omega whose family didn't want him and left at an orphanage.
Two different worlds that should never have touched.
But they did.
He chased me.
He asked for my number.
He courted me.
He promised me everything.
Because that Jungkook, he was different, yeah he was arrogant and so full of himself as it is expected from an alpha belonging to his status but he was not like them. He was sweet and kind.
Till now I don't understand why someone from the upper town, especially an elite like him chose to love me?
So after courting for seven years I stopped caring about differences.
I thought love was stronger than status.
Stronger than prejudice.
Stronger than his parents
I was wrong.
I told Jungkook many times to leave me because I wasn't worth it but he said it didn't matter.
I warned him about his parents yet he said he didn't care. He said he will fight for us,for me even if he has to leave everything behind.
He told me to wait. He said he will fix everything and make his parents understand. He will only mate me.
But promises are meant to be broken. They are easy when the battle is far away.
I waited.
I waited when he left me for five years to study abroad.
I waited every single night. I waited when he barely called me.
I waited when I needed him,I waited when the world left me broken.
Maybe I am poor but being an omega, also a male one on top of that many wanted to court me and mate me. In the downtown area being omega means nothing but a housewife, a breeder for pups.
But still I got many courting offers. Not all of them were good but for someone like me it was enough. But Jungkook promised to mate so I waited for him and rejected every single one.
I ruined my reputation waiting for him. Being an omega who is older than twenty and still didn't mate is practically a cursed omega.
People started to whisper that I was defective,undesirable,barren.
But I didn't care. Because I had Jungkook.
Or so I thought.
More tears started to stream from my eyes.
I can't control them.
I can't control the heart wracking scream that left me.
I can't control the loud sobs escaping my mouth.
I can't control anything in my life.
A few days passed with no call,no texts from him. Nothing just nothing. Just complete silence
But the silence itself was an answer.
Then he asked to meet at the park.
But what should I feel? I feel dumb and numb all at once. Yet I know one thing that I need closer. Because hurting alone was killing me. I need to know the truth from him. So I went there.
He arrived a bit later looking breathtaking like he always did. Strong alpha aura,sharp features,those dark doe eyes I used to fall into every time.But none of them mattered anymore. I felt more numb than anything.
He comes and sits beside me. For a while we didn't say anything. We sat there like two strangers.
Then he finally spoke and that shattered my already broken heart more
“ I am engaged, Taehyung. “
“ I know.” I whisper
How could I not.
He is the Jeon Jungkook-the most desirable alpha. His engagement announcement was all over the country. Even if I wanted to ignore it, I couldn't. It was everywhere. Every screen,every billboard,every gossip page.
My whole life just broke in front of my eyes. My chest tightened until breathing felt painful.
But what could I do, I decided my own fate when I agreed to his courting. I knew it could never last long. I knew there was no happily ever after. I had borrowed time and now it came to an end. I have to accept this bitter truth whether it's hard or not. Still I have to know why he didn't fight. Was I that worthless?
‘Jungkook’I said softly.
‘I won't hold anything against you. Just tell me..why didn't you fight? Was I truly that worthless to you? Why did you humiliate my dignity? I may be a poor omega, but I still have pride. So, please-tell me.”
I had lost all of my fight, all of my power, my hope, everything because the person I held dear the most just left me like I was nothing.
He didn't answer.
Just silence.
Heavy.
Sharp.
Final.
Then, in a voice so gentle it made everything harder, he said,
‘I love you, Tae. I tried. I fucking tried.Please believe me.
I pulled my hands away before he even could hold them.
“Don't say you love me, Jungkook.”
I snapped, my voice cracking.
“If you ever loved me, you would've fought for us. I waited five years for you. I gave you my youth,my loyalty, my whole heart. And now? Now my age matters more than your feelings. My status means more than our memories we made together.”
“You're misunderstanding–”
“No.” I cried.
“I'm not. You never loved me enough, Jungkook.”
Things inside me broke open.
“ I was there. I was already there for you. When your parents' expectations suffocated you, I held you. When they said alpha’s don't cry, I told you that even alpha’s can cry. I was there staying up all night to take care of you when you were sick while your parents were away doing things.”
“I carried you through everything—everything, Jungkook—and you threw me aside the moment it became inconvenient.”
He reached for me again.
“Don’t touch me.”
It came out hoarse. Desperate. True.
The park around us was beautiful—spring air gentle, flowers blooming softly—but everything felt suffocating to me.
Heavy.
Wrong.
If it was any other day I would have enjoyed every little thing. Even the beautiful dandelions, would have made a wish for our future but now I feel nothing but empty. They are not bringing me any joy. Just making me feel pathetic
I know he is looking at me. But I didn't want to look at him.
Because those dark doe eyes will make me feel weak. They will make it harder to leave him and I don't want that.
“Just for you I rejected every little courting offer.”
“They were not good Tae. You know it.”
“Yeah but for a 27 year old omega they were perfect,Jungkook. You're not going to mate me so I don't think I deserve more better because look the better is leaving me when he promised to stay forever. So forgive me for having this foolish thoughts.”
I just spat whatever is coming because I can't control them anymore and hearing him it's becoming more harder.
“ Right now all you need is an omega who is younger than your twenty-eight year self. A young omega to carry your healthy heirs. A young omega from a noble family. Not me. Not a twenty seven years old poor omega who doesn't belong to anyone, to anything.”
It is becoming hard to breathe. The air is suffocating me. Everything is closing me up.
I feel so filthy.
So pathetic.
So wrong.
Then I met his eyes.
Those eyes which always hold the whole galaxy are empty. Once holding the promises is nothing but a shell of a person I don't know. I don't know the person who is standing in front of me.
Then I just closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
“I hope you’ll be happy with your new omega,”
I whispered.
“I hope you have pups. A beautiful family. I genuinely wish you that. Even if you made everything in my life bitter, I still wish you sweetness.”
“ I bless you to live every moment happily even if you made everything in my life sour. Let Luna guide you towards your light when you push me towards the dark. Let Luna give you eternal love when you take away mine. I bless you Jeon Jungkook. May you prosper in life.”
Jungkook just stood there not saying anything. What can he say? He knew he lost. Whatever he wanted it didn't work. I don't blame him because I know his parents and how they are.
So blaming him won't help but still it hurts when I know he didn't fight for us. If he did, maybe there would be a better future for us. But now there is nothing.
I turned to leave, but he called after me, voice breaking
“Taehyung… I betrayed you. So why don’t you hate me? Why aren’t you hitting me or yelling? Why aren’t you angry?”
I looked back, tears burning but not falling.
“Because I loved you too much to hate you,”
I said simply.
“Maybe that was my mistake. I would’ve chosen you against the world. You couldn’t even choose me against your parents. So let's forget each other and never meet again”
I walked away first.
He didn’t follow.
He didn’t call.
He didn’t try.
That was the last time I saw him. The last time I spoke with him.
He blocked me on everything after that. Seven years gone in seconds.
How easy it is to break every little thing that was built for the last seven years. How funny.
This morning I saw his wedding photos on TV.
He looked happy.
Radiant.
In love.
And I felt… nothing at first.
Then everything at once.
That should’ve been me by his side.
But fate doesn’t like people like me.
I looked down at my stomach—the small swell growing under my palm.
His puppy.
Our puppy.
Growing inside me.
I never got the chance to tell him.
Maybe I never will.
Maybe it’s better that way.
I turned off the TV, letting the silence settle.
I may have no one left to fight for me.
But I will fight for my pup.
For the tiny life that still believes I’m worth something.
Because everything fell apart simply because–
I’m twenty-seven.
And in this world, sometimes
that’s enough to ruin everything.