"I'm sorry, Damon," Elena mumbled, eyes screwing shut as she felt the soft kiss placed on the top of her head. She felt the tears well up, swallowing hard and she was so determined to try and keep her emotions to herself. For all her talk of lying and covering things up, she knew that this was different. She wouldn't push her emotions onto Damon, not after the conversation they had just had.
Instead she blinked hard, breathed out slow and hard, and reached over to squeeze his hand as she forced a bright smile on her face, even as the tears that hadn't quite spilled yet clung to her lashes. "Thank you. I don't deserve either of you, you know that right?"