Chapter 72 - I Won't Ever Let You Go

"Who is Davon?" 

The crown prince questioned. No one among them was called by that name. He was curious if the man made a mistake in calling his name, since Jason has been going through something of late. He was concerned. 

"Dason is us," Jason replied. "Davion and Jason merged together becomes Dason," he explained. 

"Awww," Amaru and Winrus let out. It was cute and romantic for Jason to have taken the initiative to merge his and the prince's names together. 

Davion smiled, it was a strange thing to do but he wasn't against it. He was delighted by the idea of having a name that refers to both of them in one call. 

"It's nice," Amberly said. She smiled and cheered for the name but had her hands behind her back folded into a fist. "It's perfect for the baby," she added. 

Davion frowned when he was reminded of the baby. His hand tightened around the ring inside his pocket. He was reminded of how Jason threw the engagement ring at him and everything that took place after. 

"We should move on," he said. His mood had been ruined. 

For a moment, he forgot the side of Jason that terrified him. Sides that we're selfish and self centered. It was a side of him that he didn't like at all. 

Amberly smiled at the success of her words. She complimented Jason and showed him support while breaking down the idea of Dason. 

As far as she was concerned, Dason was just a dream that would forever remain just that. Without raising any suspicion on herself, she broke the little bridge that had formed between Jason and Nedryn. 

Davion stopped in his tracks and turned around. Out of excitement, he had overlooked something very important that clicked in his mind. 

"Who is Jason?" He inquired from the male. 

When he asked the question everyone was made aware of the fact that prince Nedryn had merged Davion's name with a stranger. 

Jason lowered his head, he internally scolded himself. Out of excitement he had accidentally mentioned his name together with the crown prince. 

He forgot that in the novel, he had to be prince Nedryn. Jason pressed his lips together trying to think of what explanations he was going to give as to why he said Jason instead of Nedryn. 

"Maybe he wishes you a companion by the name Jason," Amberly uttered. 

"Oh."

Was all that Davion had to say. He strode away without looking back. 'Good luck getting the prince back now,' Amberly thought. 

She followed the crown prince happily hoping around. It was a happy day with the sun shinning brightly yet she was slowly creating a storm without anyone's knowledge. 

Amaru and Winrus took Jason with them and they walked behind the crown prince. They chatted on the way about everything and anything. 

Along the way everyone forgot what had happened in the past and we're moving on like close friends. All except for one person. Who had the memories of the time haunting him such that he could neither forget nor forgive. 

"Why do you look down?" Jason asked Davion. 

"I was wondering," the male responded. 

"About?" 

"Why it is so easy for you to take a step away from me," he uttered. "Is it because, I am easy to walk away from or because you don't like me enough to hold on?"

Jason glanced at him, he was rendered speechless by his statement. To say that he didn't expect the crown prince to have such thoughts would be a lie. 

His actions warrant such a reaction. And he understood where the doubts were coming from. Only a heart to heart conversation could clear the doubts that the distance between them had created. 

"It could be fear," Jason whispered to him. "Trying something new in life always comes with fear of failure or getting hurt," he added. 

Jason waited patiently, when the others were busy looking at the things at the shop, he pulled Davion and left. The topic the crown prince brought up was one that required them to talk in private. 

It was hard to express his heart in the middle of the crowd. The feelings that he was getting from the situation was the need to be alone together. 

"Where are you taking me Nedryn?" Davion was confused. He was promised dragon eggs but the prince of Xeris was pulling him away from the shop that sold them. 

"Relax, we just need a little detour," Jason let out. 

He pulled the male away from thr busy markets to the small woods to the back. It provided the mood that he needed for the talk. 

He walked forward, the crown prince's strength pulled him to a stop from moving forward. Jason looked back surprised by the resistance. He glanced at the crown prince only to be greeted by a mortified sight of the man. 

He followed the trail of the male's sight and saw a hunter with his dog headed in their direction. "The author Alperx, hates dogs and would never include them in his novel," he recalled the mechanical voice from the weird experience he had behind the magical door. 

The crown prince was the novel version of the author out in the real world. So he figured that the man was afraid of the dog. 

"It's alright. The dog is harmless," he comforted. 

Davion held his hand tightly. His feet were rooted to the ground, he couldn't find the strength to move forward or aside as fear ran through his body from head to toe. 

This is why he disliked public places, one could ran into absolutely anything in such places. He was forced to ran into a dog of all things today of all days. 

"Trust me, we should just keep moving," Jason said and tried to pull the crown prince away. 

Davion was stuck. His eyes couldn't draw away from the dog and his body was unable to get away. 

Jason went deep in though before an idea hit him. If he couldn't get the prince to move away from the dog then he would simply make the man forget about the dog's presence. 

He moved and blocked Davion's sight of the dog. Jason encircled his hands around Davion's neck, he caught Davion's eyes. Under his hands, he could feel how scared the man was.

"Now that I have you, I won't ever let you go," he expressed. 

It wasn't the environment he had hoped for, but it was better than nothing. He decided that it was the perfect time to disperse the prince's doubts on his love. And it helps him hit two birds with one stone. 

"Now that I have you I have only one wish. Won't you stay a little longer with me," he proffesed wholeheartedly. 

Davion's mind let go of the thoughts of the dog and concentrated on what Jason had to say. He had to admit that at the beginning of the day, he wasn't hopeful that something good would come out of going out. 

The situation proved his expectations wrong. Mustakes we're common between people and it took someone really brave to take a first step to make up for a mistake. 

When he heard the boy tell Sashina that he would take two steps forward towards him. He had not anticipated that Jason would live up to it. But the male proved him wrong. 

"Don't ever let me go, I will be able to exist without you but won't be able to live," he admitted. 

Davion felt his anger melting away. Jason told him what he needed to heat to clear the misunderstandings in his mind. To be honest, he too felt the same way. 

Without the annoying prince of Xeris, everything around him lost its shine. He was stepping forward but not moving at all. He was smiling but only to hide his tears so he didn't have to explain to anyone why he was sad. 

It was easier to fake a smile than it was to explain the unspoken words that came out of him through tears. 

"Why say one thing and do the other. Why say you love me and act as though I mean nothing to you?" He questioned. 

He was happy with the confession he got. But if he was going to give his all to Jason then he needed to know everything. To be sure that when things got hard, he won't be the only one left to hold on. 

The man had scared his heart, giving it a freight of a lifetime when he jumped into the lake. He was lucky this time but if there was ever going to be the next time then he wasn't sure his heart could handle that. 

If he lost Jason to an irreversible thing such as death then he would never be able to bear it.. "Why say that you will never let me go when you didn't hesitate to jump down the lake?" He inquired.