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“It doesn’t matter.”
“Tell me.”
“Red-“
“Tell me,” I demand, not giving him an inch to wiggle out of this.
Damon leans a shoulder against the doorframe and reaches out to tuck a stray strand of my hair behind my ear. There is so much love in the way he touches me.
“Ezra said we’re done.”
My brows crash together, both pain and confusion sliding in to dance as a toxic cloud inside my head.
“Done?”
“With you. He told me about the promise because he wanted me to see how you’ve been playing us all along. How you’ve been lying. He doesn’t want anything to do with you anymore.”
Pausing, he stares at me with sympathy behind his eyes.
“Ezra might be done, but I’m not. I can still try this friendship thing.”
Done.
Ezra isdone.
With me.
With us.
With everything.
Tears sting the backs of my eyes, but I blink to keep them from brimming.
It doesn’t stop my heart my ripping apart, though, doesn’t stop those cold, cruel fingers from squeezing my heart until every drop of blood has leaked out to drown me on the inside.
Damon could have sliced my veins open and doused me in acid, and it would have hurt less than telling me Ezra is walking out of my life without even one word to me about it.
I wrap my arms around my body in an effort to hold myself together. I can’t shatter right here in front of Damon, can’t let on that this news is enough to tear me to shreds.
It can’t be that obvious.
Not in front of him.
“Okay,” I answer, my voice weak as I change the subject.
“And why did you attack Dylan when you first came here?”
He studies me for several seconds, his hand moving as if to reach out and touch me, but he stops himself.
“Because he’s on our shitlist for treating you like crap. Ezra has warned him, and now I have. There are no more warnings.”
I bite the inside of my cheek because that pain is a hell of a lot easier than what I’m feeling.
“Why does it matter? If you’re done-“
“I’m not done. Ezra is. And you’ll always matter. To him and me. I don’t care what he says. You’llalwaysmatter to both of us.”
Damon leans down to plant a soft kiss on my temple.
