Chapter 8 - Disconnection

It's been about a day since Jungkook left for the pack meeting. Him being the BETA, he is second in command so he had a lot of things he needed to take care of in the meeting.

It was late in the evening, you had just gotten back from work and you were feeling restless. Being an alpha, not having your mate close by made it very difficult for you. Your wolf cried inside your head wanting to be with Jungkook, she needed his presence, his touch and his love.

You tried to calm your wolf but nothing seemed to be working. You thought talking to someone might help but at the time you didn't really have anyone and it was late. You thought maybe taking a relaxing bath will help, but that too proved to be useless.

You decided to just sleep everything off so you got in bed with a heavy heart and tried to let the night air and calm music put you in a peaceful slumber.

Everything seemed to be fine until an hour later you were woken up to excruciating amounts of pain shooting all over your body. You were confused at first as to what was going on as the amount of pain that you were going through caused tears to form in your eyes as a reflex.

Your body shot up but soon enough it fall back down as you felt the pain slowly move all over your body. Not a second later you felt a heat wave engulf your entire body as if you were being burnt from the inside out.

You tried to get up again and made your way to the window. Beads of sweat were rolling off your face and soaking up your shirt. You opened the window and let the cold snowy breeze blow in, instantly feeling a bit better as the little snowflakes touched your skin. It was then that you realized why you felt this way.

You knew there was no way to solve this now because it was only something Jungkook could take care of.

A heavy sigh escaped your lips as your head automatically hung low and you came to painfully accept the fact that, you were in 'heat'.

A wolf goes into heat once a year when they've already mated compared to once a month when they still haven't. It really caught you by surprise that out of all days, today you went into heat. What are the odds that this had to happen the one day Jungkook wasn't around? You were so frustrated and you didn't like the fact that you had to disturb him. No matter how hard you tried to cool yourself even by lying on the snow, it was still there like a little burning ember inside your body.

You tried to control the pain eventually making your wolf angry. She screamed in your head "I need him, NOW!" as she demanded you to connect to Jungkook.
You finally lost all hope and decided to call for your mate. Your eyes flashed red as you opened the mind link "Jungkook...love?" you said almost in tears as you waited for him to respond.

Much to your disappointment Jungkook didn't reply. He usually responds to you almost instantly through the mind link unless he's asleep. You thought that he could have been sleeping but for whatever reason, you had a very ill feeling and felt that wasn't really the case. All of a sudden your pain wasn't the problem anymore as the worry of where he was and why he wasn't answering started to invade your head.

You slowly felt like both you and your wolf were going into a full blown panic attack but you never got the chance as a few minutes later you received a phone call.

A phone call you wished you had never answered.

~ time skip ~

It was now midnight. All you could hear was the sound of your car's engine roaring as you floored the gas pedal. The cold wind blew through your hair as you looked ahead at the sky and prayed to the moon goddess "P-please please tell me it's not true. It can't be." you cried out loud as the mixture of physical and mental pain took over your entire being.

20 minutes later you had just slammed the door of your car and you were making your way to the commotion. The officers quickly moved out of the way as you rushed in between them like an ambulance making its way through traffic. "Captain! Right here." You heard as Junho called to you. You made your way to him as the yellow crime scene tape was automatically lifted up for you to pass through.

"Is he really-?" you asked Junho without even completing your question. You already knew the answer but to this very moment you had hoped there was even the slightest chance that this was all not true and just a horrible nightmare that you will wake up from at any moment.

Junho: "Yes… captain, after I got the anonymous tip I honestly couldn't believe it so I had to come see myself. He was dead when we got to the scene"

Y/n: "W-Where is he, I need t-to see him." you said as your hand automatically covered your mouth to stop yourself from crying out loud.

Junho: "He's over there with the medical examiner" he said as he pointed towards the person wearing the scrubs outfit. He then slowly rubbed your back "I'm so sorry captain."

You made your way to the medical examiner wanting to see him. "Captain, I think it's best-"

"It's fine I-I've been through this before." You interrupted.

You slowly pulled the white blood stained cloth up quickly putting it back down as your heart broke into a thousand pieces. You honestly had no more life left in your body as you tried to cope with everything that was going on around you. You supported your body by holding on to the medical bed as your head pointed downwards.

You looked back up at the examiner giving her a little nod signaling her to give you a moment. She left the next moment as you looked back down.

"S-sweetheart I-I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry I couldn't protect you from this. If I could trade places with you I would have done it in a heartbeat. I will avenge you. I promise." You said as you cried and held his hands and realized why Jungkook never answered in the mind link.

Whatever pain you had earlier had slowly turned into anger and frustration and disappointment as you turned around and ran your fingers through your hair.

An hour later, you were at the precinct. It was late and no one was in the office except for you. You had to sign off a couple papers and finalize last minute preparations. Finally finishing, you put your pen down as you let out a long painful breath.

Once again whatever pain you felt before you had the distraction of signing the papers came back to you. Anger slowly filled you as your arms automatically swung across your desk flinging everything all over the place.

You screamed your heart out and cried so much as your mind thought back to the phone call you received earlier from Junho "Captain, I-its Jungkook. We found him here at an empty warehouse. Captain…you need to get here soon."