Chapter 54 - The Princess Selection (8)

Walking up in his room, Jason found that he wasn't alone. Right beside him laying on his hand was the girl he used to crush on. He rubbed sleep off his eyes and sat up on the bed. 

He removed Sashina from his hands and laid her on the bed. 'How did I get here?' He asked. 

"You are awake," he jumped hearing the scary voice of the crown prince. Turning his head to spot the man, he found Davion seated at the chair next to the bed with a book in his hands. 

Jason gulped. "What are you doing here?" He questioned. Davidson raised his eyebrows at him before setting his book down on the bed. 

"Weren't you the one who said that we are engaged, hence what is yours is mine?" Davion asked to him. 

"I didn't mean it in a wrong way," he defended. He was just curious as to how long the man had been seated there. If he was the one who brought him back from the garden. 

But the man being in edge took it as an offense. "I'm sure you didn't," Davion said sarcastically and rolled his eyes at him. "For a man preaching love to me, don't you think your lies would be believable if I didn't walk in on you and her," he let out pointing out at Sashina. 

Jason felt a nerve on his head about to pop. Yes, he had made a mistake for which he had said he was sorry over and over again. But the male just didn't want to believe him. 

How should he know why he woke up with her on the same bed. The last thing he recalled was falling asleep at the selection. For all he knew, the prince could have planted the girl in his bed just to have a reason to be more angry with him. 

"You know, I am done," he uttered tired. It was hard trying to explain himself to someone who didn't want to understand. The prince was letting his anger cloud his judgement so it didn't matter what he said. He would always be guilty. 

"Done?" Davidson asked in confusion not getting what he meant.

"I'm done trying to convince you of my love. You can believe and think what you want, but if you don't trust then I don't see why we are engaged," he let out. 

He removed the ring on his hand and angrily threw it at Davion. With his reflexes, the man easily caught the ring. Jason was mad, angry at him. 

Love required trust and that was something that the prince didn't have. The male didn't trust him, he spent an entire watching boring stupid ceremony just for him and he wasn't appreciative. 

He made efforts to try and make things right between them but he realised that no matter what he did. The accusations would never stop. And more was the fact that, if he started proving himself now even before they were officially together what more when they were. 

He would have to explain himself each time and assure Davion everyday. It was too much. 

Davion clapped his hands in slow motion in the air. Jason raised his head to glance at him. Wondering why he was clapping his hands like that. 

"I was wondering how long you would keep up the act," Davion said. "I actually thought that it wasn't an act and that you truly cared but now I know," the man got up from the chair. 

He pocketed the ring and inched his face closer to Jason's face. "I hope and pray that no one ever plays with your heart as you have done mine," he uttered in a pained voice. 

Jason found himself feeling guilty. He found his heart squeezing in pain. The look in the crown prince's eyes was heartbreaking. It made him feel like a villain. 

He opened his mouth to say something but words wouldn't come out. His chest moved up and down trembling with panic. 

"I have often heard of how heartless the prince of Xeris was. I had no idea that I would experience your cold stone heart first hand," he informed him. 

The cold and indifferent face that the crown prince usually wore wasn't there. He let down all his walls and showed Jason his true self. His hurt and wounded self. 

He had never felt so bad in his life. Yes, the crown prince did doubt on him but only because he gave him reason to doubt his love. He was impatient and didn't think before reacting. 

He felt as though someone was ripping his heart out of his chest. The crown prince captured his gaze and had him see all the damage that had been done with his choices and decisions. 

"I thought that I could stop thinking about, get you out of my mind and heart but it's impossible," Davion stated. "I guess it my curse for being so flirtatious right? You punished me in worst possible way Nedryn," he added. 

Jason swallowed, his throat was drying up listening to the crown prince talk about what he had done. His words crisscrossed his heart like sharp blades cutting at every inch of him. 

"Now you are backing away. Leaving me with all this feelings, what am I going to do with them?" He asked. "I cant direct them at someone else since my heart beat only beats for you," Davion confessed. Hus eyes moistening. 

He was truly hurt by the male.  To him it was a game which he won but for him who never volunteered to play, he got the losing end of everything. And the worst part was that he still loved the male despite everything. 

"Why couldn't you play with my mind or body?" He inquired of him. "Those parts of me forget things very easily but my heart is just too stubborn. It refuses to give up on how it feels for you," he told to him. 

Jason's breath hitched.