#ehlena

—— He cups Elena’s face on his hand, his eyes soft and focused on the girl he loves. The feelings he felt now, were feelings crawling up from the small humanity he had. Of course, he lived without a humanity for quite some time — yet, Elena was the only good and human thing he ever came to feel. Awakening that small grain of love.

Unfortunately, Elena belonged to Stefan. Yet, Damon couldn’t fight his feelings for Elena. He had to make her aware; even if it meant compelling her to forget.

As he stood inside the Gilbert home, in her room. He looks into her hues, “you may not want to hear this. But, if I don’t tell you, I’m going to hate myself for not ever telling you.” He begins, “i love you, Elena. You are the only good thing in my life that exists. You’re the only good in me.” He whispers to her, “but, I know I deserve your love less that’s Stefan.”

Lover Avenged has such a toxic dynamic. So far all of the books do and I haven’t finished this one, but Rehvenge is definitely irredeemable. I shouldn’t have to say this but if a man is lying to quote on quote protect you then dump their ass. Especially if the lie is “I’m not fucking another woman”. It doesn’t matter if she’s a psycho with weird fingers or if she’s blackmailing you. I think Ehlena deserves a little transparency especially since she got FIRED FROM HER JOB, all because Rehv was being an annoying stubborn dickhead. (And at least she had the balls to own her mistake) Even the whole lying about his sympath side is sketch. And he knows he shouldn’t be getting involved with her with his oodles of baggage, but does it anyways. So what’s the deal? She’s going into this with none of the pertinent information. I guess I’ll see how this works out for them.

Ugh, and Ehlena saying that being on the phone with Rehv was just a form of false intimacy smacked me right in the heart.

And I liked John Matthew, but he’s also falling into the Brotherhood’s go to trope of becoming a whiny git. I don’t even want to talk about how badly they screwed over Phury in the last book.

I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS THAT GO UNANSWERED!

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