He nodded his head. "It's alright, Elena. I probably wouldn't have. The whole sire bond.... threw me. I had been waiting for so long for you to want to be with me, and then it happened. And the the sire bond came out..." he trailed off.
"I had felt it was too good to be true to begin with, and it was like being proven right." He had come to a point with Elena where he had decided that he wasn't ever going to win her over and that he couldn't bring himself to try to ruin things for Stefan and her.
He nodded his head again. He had remembered what Katherine had said to her that night he had lay dying and she'd brought the cure. 'It's okay to love them both. I did'. And he knew Elena had fought that for so long. "I know I don't make things easy. You were right about me, I do sabotage things. But I don't want to sabotage this."
"I know that I didn't chose to love you either, Elena. Trust me, falling for my brothers girlfriend again was not something that I planned. But I don't regret it. Not for a second."