QT: I Bent The Male Lead - Chapter 36

The King had announced Aphidia holding a feast for the prince of Xeris. It was meant to be for the king but the man changed his mind last minute and decided not to show up.

The King didn’t want his arrangements to go waste and decided to put the party in honor of the prince of Xeris. Jason was so happy when his butler told him the news.

But the butler had more to say. The crown had forgiven all his debt and freed him from his promise. It was a shocking news, but Jason knew far too well why the prince was suddenly to forgiving.

It was to stay away from him. The only reason he had called to his debts in the first place was to isolate him and torture him but that wasn’t his intention anymore. He wanted to be as far from him as possible and not have anything to do with him.

This news ruined Jason’s mood. All the signs were there, screaming at him that he had fallen in love but he refused to accept it. Being a man who was often attracted to females, to accept the fact that his heart was beating for a male was a little hard to do.

He paced around his room. The party was a perfect way to get the crown prince back, knowing the man. He wouldn’t come to the party.

He wanted to believe that the party was the author’s way of helping him but it didn’t make sense. Even if he went to the party and the crown prince was other, there was no certainty that the male would give him the time of day.

There was no one more qualified in the art of avoiding people than the crown prince. If he wanted to then there eyes wouldn’t even meet at the party.

All the tricks he had read in the romance novels wouldn’t work either. The crown prince was built differently. He liked to flirt but not to take things seriously. Letting people go came easy to him.

Every thought he came up with was a fail. “My prince,” his man servant called out. Jason came out of his thoughts and looked at him.

“Lady Sashina has returned from her fathers house. She is by the garden,” the servant informed of him.

Jason dropped everything that he was doing and ran off to meet her. She had left the palace in a hurry after what went down in the crown prince’s room that he didn’t get to apologise.

He felt sorry to her for how the prince treated her. The crown prince would never have behaved with her in that way in the original novel. He felt guilty that it was the fact that he entered the novel that caused the book to change.

He would do anything to make it up to her. He picked up flowers on his way there and rushed to meet her. He thought of what he was going to say to her when they saw each other.

He wished it to be perfect for his perfect queen. He got more and more nervous as he neared the garden, his heartbeat picked up as though he was going to meet the prince and not Sashina.

In the last few days, every time his heartbeat picked up he would know that the crown prince was around. The hairs on his skin would rise with fear that the crown prince might push him further away than they already were if he tried to get close.

His body, mind and soul were no longer his. They moved to the tune of the crown prince and there was nothing that he could do about it. He tried to fight it by convincing himself of lies but deep down even he knew the truth he was trying so hard to bury.

“From my heart to you,” he presented the flowers to her. Her back was turned to him as she started to the distance. Her hair plated and had nicely with a cute hair pin.

Jason frowned noting her choice of dress. She wore a buggy dress that left so much room and barely touched her body. Even a priests clothes were better than what she had on.

The material might have been top class but the tailor needed some lessons on how to design a dress for a lady.

“I am truly sorry. Please will you forgive me,” he held the flowers to her. He waited for her to take the flowers from him to show that she had forgiven him.

The flowers were snatched from him, he smiled happily that he could at least get one angry person to forgive him.

He found that apologizing to Sashina was easier that the stubborn crown prince. The man simply wouldn’t bulge, he shook his head to clear his mind off thoughts of him.

He was with Sashina and it wouldn’t be fair to her if his attention was shifted between her and the crown prince.

“Does this mean that I am forgiven?” He inquired softly. His played with his fingers nervously, he really hoped she would forgive him. Even if they didn’t end up together, they could at least be friends.

That was all that he wanted. The person before him turned around, Jason’s jaw dropped coming face to face with the crown prince. Davion stood there calmly with the flowers in his hands.

“I am only accepting the flowers as they are my favourite,” he uttered. “But it in no way means that I forgive you,” he added.

It was the longest that the crown prince had spoken to him in days. It wasn’t the words he wanted to hear but after missing the prince’s voice so much he settle for what he got.

“I’m so happy you spoke to me,” he let out subconsciously. Davion raised his brows at his words, if he said that his heart didn’t skip a beat at those words, he would be lying.

“Really, I thought you cared more about whether or not Sashina talked to you,” the crown prince let out.

Hearing her name from his lips made Jason’s blood boil. Only his name sounded best for the crown prince’s lips. He should only call his name and not hers, he hated the sound of her name from Davion’s lips. He suddenly forgot the guilt he felt towards Sashina and only bitterness was left.

His name had not come from the crown prince’s lips in days and he easily called her name. He was jealous and he hated that he had to be because of her. He wouldn’t mind becoming a villain to get rid of Sashina from the prince’s life forever.

“I have to go,” Davion uttered and left.