The Crown Prince's Love
Chapter 31

"My name is John. I just got admitted here, Your Highness." The boy introduced himself and extended his hand for a shake.

Just as I was about to take his hand, Desmond swiftly intervened.

"I'm Desmond, and I'm the prince's bodyguard." He introduced himself.

The elevator doors opened, and he seized my hand, leading me out, not allowing me to converse with the boy.

Once in our room, I angrily pulled my hand from his grasp and frowned at him, wondering why he had acted in that manner. "What's wrong with you, Desmond?"

Desmond didn't respond and instead headed to the bathroom, disregarding my question.

I followed him, but he slammed the door in my face. "Desmond!" I shouted and banged on the door, but received no response.

I went back to my bed, sat down, and stared at the door, waiting for him to emerge.

Unable to contain my curiosity about what was going on with Desmond, I eventually stood up and began pacing. It didn't take long for him to come out of the bathroom, a white towel wrapped around his waist. "Desmond!" I rushed toward him. "Why did you slam the door in my face like that? I thought we..."

"Class will start soon, Randy. You don't want others asking questions about us arriving late, and..." Desmond started to explain.

"I don't care!" I shouted at him and then sighed deeply. "Is everything alright with you?" I inquired, attempting to touch his wet shoulder, but he moved away, leaving my hand hanging in the air. "Desmond." I said, but he remained silent, so I interpreted it as a yes and went into the bathroom.

While alone in the bathroom, I heaved a deep sigh as I stood under the shower letting the cold water cascade down my body while thinking about what could have happened with Desmond for him to start acting that way.

I remembered the previous night and how we had acted so in love and now, we were acting like enemies which shouldn't have happened. After confessing to always be together forever and a day, something might have happened. I turned off the shower, grabbed one of the towels neatly arranged on the towel rack and wrapped it around my waist and then I walked to the mirror.

I touched the red marks on my neck and chest remembering how Desmond had sucked on my neck and chest the previous night before.

We were both happy and now, this was happening.

We were back to the silent treatment.

I didn't know how long I had stared at the mirror until I heard Desmond knock on the door.

"Your Highness, we have a few minutes until the class starts!" He reminded me.

I clenched my fists angry that he was back to calling me Your Highness and wouldn't even talk to me.

I heaved a deep sigh and walked out of the bathroom bumping him on the shoulder as I walked out.

I picked a random white shirt and black pants as the outfit for the class and when I was done dressing up, I headed out of the room without saying anything to him and he just followed behind. When we were alone in the elevator, I looked at the other side and he didn't even bother speaking with me.

I tapped my foot on the ground hoping that he would say something but he continued to ignore me and when the doors finally opened, I rushed out without sparing him a glance.

"Your highness..." Hilda greeted me as I walked out but this time, I didn't respond to her and heard Desmond responding on my behalf.

Outside the dormitory, I suddenly stopped walking and noticed that Desmond had done the same thing.

"Stop the pretense alright!" I said, unable to keep up with the facade any longer with him as I hated the silent treatment between us.

"Your highness. We shouldn't be talking about this here."

"Then where?" I demanded. "You won't even talk to me anywhere and the funny thing is that I don't even know what I have done wrong for you to act like this towards me!"

"This is not the right place to have this conversation, Your Highness."

"Your highness?!" I scoffed. "Now you are back to that? Does last night mean anything to you at all!"

"Everyone is looking at us. We will discuss this later!" He said and tried to grab my hand but I angrily yanked it off and started walking away.

"If you won't talk to me then it is fine. I don't know what I have done wrong to be treated like this but I won't stand here and be treated like this!"

Desmond ran after me and tried to grab my hand but I pushed his hand away.

While walking away hurriedly, someone suddenly appeared in front of me, pointing something at me.

At first, I frowned at the person wondering what kind of game or prank they were trying to pull at me. My eyes widened when I realized that it was a gun. The attacker was wearing a black mask hiding his face away and before I could understand what was happening, a shot was fired at me.

It hit me on the stomach like a tsunami and I choked on my breath as my eyes suddenly became blurry and I was falling to the ground.

"Bullet!" I murmured as I looked down at my stomach to see that blood was pooling out.

I turned to face Desmond and when he saw me, he ran towards me and let out a horrifying scream.